Yong-Woo Kim, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Construction Management
University of Washington
120 Architecture Hall, Box 351610
Seattle, WA 98195-1610

phone: 206.616.1916

fax: 206.685.1976

email: yongkim@u.washington.edu

Ph.D., Engineering Project Management, University of California, Berkeley, 2002
M.S., Engineering Project Management University of California, Berkeley, 1999
B.S., Civil Eng, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea, 1995  (Summa Cum Laude)

Lean Project Delivery System
Production Control using the Last Planner System
Supply Chain Management  
Collaborative Design Process

Sustainable Construction
Environmental Management System
Green Supply Chain Management

Project Cost Management
Applying activity-based costing to construction
Developing profit point analysis (PPA); Balanced Scorecard

University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Aug 2007 ~ )
Assistant Professor, Department of Construction Management, College of Architecture and Urban Planning

State University of New York, ESF at Syracuse University (June 2004 to Aug 2007)
Assistant Professor, Construction Management and Engineering Program

University of Houston, Houston (Aug 2003 to May 2004)
Assistant Professor, Construction Management Program

Lean Construction Institute (January 2000 to May 2003)
Researcher, Lean Construction Institute, Oakland, CA

University of California, Berkeley (August 2001 to May 2002)
Graduate Student Instructor, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Institute of Urban and Regional Development, Berkeley, CA (May 1999 to December 1999)
Student Researcher, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, Berkeley, CA
        
Samwhan Corporation, Inc., Seoul, KOREA (December 1994 to May 1998)
Project Engineer,  Seoul, KOREA

Bae, Jinwoo (Ph.D. student, Univ of Washington)
Research subject: Supply chain management in lean project delivery
Jang, Jinwoo (Ph.D. candidate, SUNY ESF)
Research subject: Performance measurement for lean construction
Bae, Hyungi (Ph.D. candidate, SUNY ESF)
Research subject: Quantitative analysis of environmental management in construction management
Scott, Gates (Ph.D. candidate, SUNY ESF)
Research subject: Building commissioning for sustainability
Lenahan, John. (M.S. student, SUNY ESF)
Research subject: Organizational change for lean project delivery in construction

Recent Graduates:

Gatala, Imran (M.S., Univ of Houston, 2004 Spring)
Subject: Simulation for resource optimization
Bell, Allison (M.S, Univ of Houston, 2004 Spring)
Subject: Problems surrounding the construction of technology center in Downtown Houston
Srujan Veeranki (M.S., Univ of Houston, 2004 Spring)
Subject: Safety in Lean Construction

Kim, Y, Jang, J, and Ballard G. (2007) “A Case in which a Specialty Contractor Leads a Lean Implementation”, 15th Annual Conference of the International Group for LeanConstruction, Detroit, MI.

Kim, Y, Ballard G., and Park, C. (2007) “A Case of Lean Implementation: Shift from Lean Production to Lean Supply Chain Management” 15th Annual Conference of the International Group for LeanConstruction, Detroit, MI.

Kim, Y. and Bae, J. (2007) “Sustainable Value on Construction Project and Lean Project Development”, 15th Annual Conference of the International Group for LeanConstruction, Detroit, MI.

Ballard G., and Kim, Y (2007) “Implementing Lean on Capital Projects”, 15th Annual Conference of the International Group for LeanConstruction, Detroit, MI.

Jang, J, and Kim, Y (2007), “Use of Percent of Constraint Removal to Measure the Make-Ready Process”, 15th Annual Conference of the International Group for LeanConstruction, Detroit, MI.

Jang, J, and Kim, Y (2007), “Using Kanban for Construction Production and Safety Control”, 15th Annual Conference of the International Group for LeanConstruction, Detroit, MI.

Jang, J, Kim, Y, and Park, C. (2007), “Importance of Partners in a Challenging Lean Journey”, 15th Annual Conference of the International Group for LeanConstruction, Detroit, MI.

Kim, Y, and Ballard, G. (2007), “Toward Lean Construction Implementation Theory”, 2007 United State-Korea Scientists Conference,   Washington, DC.

Jang, J, and Kim, Y (2007), “Lean Construction Performance Measurement for Process Control”, 2007 United State-Korea Scientists Conference,   Washington, DC.

Jang, J, and Kim, Y (2007), “Visual control for production management: Case Study in Highway Construction in Korea”, 2007 United State-Korea Scientists Conference,   Washington, DC, Submitted Apr 2007

Kim, Y and Jang, J (2006) “The Last Planner System on Tunneling Projects”,  Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management,  Korea Society of Construction Engineering and Management, Vol. 7, No 4.

Kim, Y and Jang, J (2006) “Constraint Analysis using Organizational Hierarchy”, 14th Annual Conference of the International Group for LeanConstruction, Chile. (Selected a Paper Presenting Innovative Idea & Keynote Presentation)

Kim, Y and Jang, J (2006) “Production planning using Organizational Hierarchy”, 6th International Symposium on Architectural Interchanges in Asia, Taegu, Korea.

Kim, Y , Jang, J, Bae, J. (2006) “Assessment of Lean Project Delivery: Benefits and Barriers of Lean Construction,  2006 United State-Korea Scientists Conference,   Fort Lee, NJ.   

Jang, J and Kim, Y (2006) “The Last Planner system: Applying Organizational Hierarchy Constraint Analysis”, 2006 United State-Korea Scientists Conference,   Fort Lee, NJ

Kim, Y. and Ballard, G (2005). “Profit Point Analysis: A Method of Analyzing of Indirect Staff Costs”, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 32, No.1

Kim, Y. and Jang, J. (2005) “Application of Last Planner to Heavy Construction in Korea” Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Group for LeanConstruction, Sydney, Australia

Kim, Y. and Ballard, G. (2005) “Management Thinking Behind Project Control Tools” Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of  Construction Engineering and Management,  Seoul, Korea

Kim, Y. and Ballard, G. (2002). “Customer-Earned-Value Method”, Journal of Construction Research,, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2002) 55-66

Kim, Y. and Ballard, G (2002). “Profit Point Analysis – New Project Overhead ControlProceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Group for LeanConstruction, Brazil

Kim, Y. and Ballard, G. (2001). “Activity-Based Costing and Its Applivcation to Lean Construction”, Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Group for LeanConstruction, Singapore

Kim, Y. and Ballard, G. (2000). “Is Earned-Value Method an Enemy of Work Flow?”, Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Group for LeanConstruction, Brighton, England
   
Columns and other Publications

Green Building Trends in US, Korean Wood Construction and Product News, May 2006
Lean Project Management and Customer Focus, Korean Wood Construction and Product News, Jan 2006

Construction Management Curriculum in US, Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Dec 2005

Performance Measurements for Lean Construction, 2005.6.~2008.5. Sponsor: IYC Construction.

Implementation Roadmap for Lean Construction at a Project Level,  2005.9.~2007.8. Sponsor: Construction Industry Institute (CII), Working with Dr. Glenn Ballard, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Sustainable Construction using Lean Principles,  2006.8 ~2007.5, SUNY Research Foundation Incentive Fund