Looking to improve efficiency and outcomes in your construction projects? The Lean and Digitalization in Construction online course offers a clear and practical introduction to how lean principles and digital tools can enhance project performance, strengthen quality, and reduce waste. Participants explore proven ways to streamline workflows and tackle common challenges in modern construction. Through self-paced videos, readings, and applied assignments, the course shows how lean practices and digital solutions support better planning, coordination, and decision-making. Designed for construction and design professionals at various career stages, it provides immediately usable insights that help drive more efficient and effective project delivery.

Syllabus

Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, you will be able to:

Identify current challenges in supply chain management (SCM) practices
Understand what industry-level developments would enhance lean and digitalization in SCM
Evaluate impacts of lean and digitalized practices in SCM, production planning and design management
Define strategy to apply lean and digitalization in SCM, production planning and design management.
Understand how modularization and industrialization can improve building investments from cost, schedule, quality and sustainability perspectives
Define barriers and enablers for implementing modularization and industrialization
Select the most promising industrialization methods for your projects and businesses
Understand basics of lean philosophy
Use lean design and construction tools (CBA, Last Planner System, Takt planning)

Content and Schedule

This course offers a thorough overview of how lean methods and digital tools can reshape construction workflows. You will learn key approaches for increasing project efficiency, improving quality, and minimizing waste, while also discovering how digital solutions can support smoother, more transparent processes.

The learning experience includes video lectures, reading materials, reflection tasks, and various assignments such as quizzes. You can study at your own pace and complete the course from anywhere. The estimated workload is 54 hours, and you will have 90 days of access to all course content.

The course is delivered in English.

The program is organized into five modules, each focusing on a core theme:

Module 1 – Production Planning and Control
Module 2 – Supply Chain Management
Module 3 – Digital Situation Picture in Construction Management
Module 4 – Industrialized and Modular Construction
Module 5 – Lean Design Management in Construction

For Whom?

This course is well suited for both seasoned professionals and those early in their construction or design careers, offering a chance to gain up-to-date insights and strengthen your expertise.

It is especially valuable for Project Managers, Construction Managers, Design Managers, Site Engineers, and other professionals involved in project delivery or developing new ways of working within their organizations.

A basic understanding or prior experience in construction management is recommended to get the most out of the program.