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9 L EAN C ONSTRUCTION I RELAND A NNUAL B OOK OF C ASES 2019 12th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC), Helsingor, Denmark, August 3-5, pp.234-249. [Available at www.iglc.net ] Ballard, G. and Tommelein, I. (2016) ‘Current Process Benchmark for the Last Planner System’, Lean Construction Journal, pp.57-89. [Available at www.leanconstructionjournal.org] Zimina, D., Ballard, G., and Pasquire, C. (2012) ‘Target value design: using collaboration and a lean approach to reduce construction cost’, Construction Management and Economics, Vol.30, No.5, pp.383-398. Glenn Ballard is a Research Associate at the Project Production Systems Laboratory, University of California Berkeley. Glenn entered the construction industry as a pipef i tter’s helper, trans i t ioned to construction engineering, and in 1980 was named Manager of Product ivi ty Improvement for a construction division of Brown and Root. He subsequently became an internal management consultant with Bechtel Petroleum, working on all aspects of project delivery, and supporting projects in other Bechtel divisions such as the South Texas Nuclear Plant . He began a management consulting business in 1987. In paral lel , he began lectur ing on productivity and quality improvement at the University of California Berkeley in 1989, and completed the transition from industry to academia in 2005 when he was named Research Director for the University’s Project Product ion Sys tems Laborator y. He co- founded the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC) in 1993, the Lean Construction Institute (LCI) in 1997, the Project Production Systems Laboratory in 2005, and Lean in the Public Sector (LIPS) in 2007. Glenn retired from his position as Research Director in 2019, but continues in a support role as a Research Associate for the Project Production Systems Laboratory. Wi th lots of help from others , Glenn developed the Last Planner® System (LPS) and Target Value Delivery (TVD) – two key Lean Construction methods, both of which he continues to improve. A new Current Process Benchmark for the Last Planner System is due to be published by the end of 2019, and Glenn is now leading research groups to develop better methods for use in Target Value Del ivery, namely, conceptual estimating (estimating cost at completion prior to design) and using trade-off curves in aligning potentially conflicting stakeholder requirements. These will be incorporated in a future update of the Current Proces s Benchmark for Target Value Delivery . Glenn has a long list of publications (see Google Scholar), many of which are available at the website of the IGLC (www.iglc.net ). Bio