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PROVIDER/OWNER

PA N O S L A M P S A S
MBA, regional program manager, Sutter Health
(San Francisco)
WHO HE IS: Lampsas has worked in

AMANDA B ARNES

Lampsas, center, with
some of the VNGC trade
partners

the construction industry for 30
years, starting as an assistant project manager on federal projects
while going to school to earn a bachelor's degree in mathematics. The
construction bug stuck with him,
though, as he continued a career
overseeing increasingly complicated public projects, which eventually
landed him in California in 2000,
managing seismic upgrades at Stanford Hospital before moving on to Washington Hospital
in Fremont, Calif., and then John Muir Medical
Center in Walnut Creek, Calif. Now entrenched
in the owner side of the business, Lampsas
joined Sutter Health in 2010, managing construction of Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, Calif., a $320 million integrated Lean project delivery (ILPD) project. Earning his MBA
in 2011, Lampsas moved into his current role in
2013, where he's now responsible for construction of the new Van Ness and Geary Campus
(VNGC) hospital, a $2 billion, 1 million-squarefoot ILPD project-the largest project in the history of Sutter Health and one of the largest ILPD
projects ever built in the U.S.

Van Ness and Geary Campus site
YEAR IN REVIEW: Lampsas has spent the year leading the daily efforts of the
VNGC team's collocation office, where 150 workers representing 16 design
and trade partners come together across the street from where 900 additional tradespeople are constructing the new hospital. He's maintained
the project schedule despite the realities of extremely complex logistical
challenges-a site on two of the busiest streets in one of the most densely populated cities in the U.S.-and a budget that's grown by more than
$10 million in the past year. His focus on safety has achieved zero lost-time
incidents in more than 2 million man hours recorded in the past 12 months.
"A very engaged owner, Panos takes great pride in his leadership role of the
project and achieving the construction goals that have been set collectively
as a project team. He takes responsibility for the challenges that the project is faced with day in and day out, while also being the biggest proponent
for team building and creating a workplace that people love to come to each
day," says team member David Thomack, executive vice president and general manager of The Boldt Co. Lampsas has also opened the site to other
industry professionals, inviting teams from around the world-including
competing healthcare organizations-to see the collaboration and knowledge-sharing taking place and the benefits they yield.
WHAT'S NEXT: With project completion scheduled for August 2018 and
an opening in March 2019, Lampsas will be focused on VNGC for a while.
Meanwhile, he plans to continue to increase awareness of the ILPD process on the owner side of the industry. "ILPD is in its infant stages, and the
more people that get it, the better it will get," he says.

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