Sponsorship

Solicitation for Sponsorship for LCI-Q

The Lean Construction Institute – Qatar (LCI-Q) has been registered as a nonprofit organization, under Qatar Financial Center Authority to deploy and promote the Lean Construction theory, management, practices, and techniques in Qatar. The objectives of LCI-Q are:

Spread awareness of Lean Construction and Lean Thinking.
Support transforming construction industry in Qatar to Lean Construction environment and enhance performance by generating value, eliminating waste, increasing efficiency, and maximizing productivity.
Provide the best opportunities to local Lean Construction management professionals and academics who are seeking genuine education, research, training, conferences, knowledge, and networking.
Establish a platform to share experience, knowledge, lessons learned, and best practices.
Promote Lean Thinking.
Support the State of Qatar’s 2030 Vision, realizing human development, social development, economic development, and environmental development; by developing businesses and Qatari nationals in the field of engineering and construction management.

LCI-Q is the first global Lean community of practice in Asia of the main Lean Construction Institute in USA which is the world’s largest organization for Lean Construction.

Recently, LCI-Q successfully organized the first Lean in Public Sector conference in MENA in collaboration with Public Works Authority and Qatar University. Furthermore, LCI-Q trained the first group to qualify for Certificate of Management-Lean Construction (CM-Lean) under the Lean Construction Education Program of Associated General Contractors of America (AGC).

I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to participate in the Lean Construction movement by becoming one of our valued sponsors. We have designed four different sponsorship levels that enable you to become a valuable sponsor for a 12-month duration from January to December. The tenure for this sponsorship term will continue until December 31, 2020. Additionally, you may partner with us in organizing a specific event which serves both of us.

There will be four levels of sponsorship with varying degrees of benefits applicable to each level as shown in tables 1 and 2.

Table 1: Levels of sponsorship

#	Sponsorship Classification	Amount (QAR)
1	Platinum	35,000
2	Gold	25,000
3	Silver	15,000
4	Bronze	10,000

Table 2: Benefits for different levels of sponsorship

		SPONSORSHIP CLASSIFICATION
#	Benefits of Sponsorship	Platinum	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1.	Certificate of Appreciation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2.	Advertisement, thanking sponsors (once per term in local newspaper)	Shared Ad (Half page, colored, Inside page)		Shared Ad (Quarter, Inside page)
3.	Promotional slideshow (During breaks)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
4.	Roll up banners during selected events (provided by the sponsor upon accepting the design by LCI-Q) *	(entrance, Stage, & dinner hall)	at entrance and Stage	at entrance	No
5.	Sponsor name and logo on selected event banner and advertisement (hard copies and electronically)	Yes	Yes	No	No
6.	10 min presentation at annual gathering**	Yes	No	No	No
7.	Guaranteed VIP seats at annual event	10 seats	5 seats	3 seats	2 seats
8.	Free memberships for staff of sponsor	20	15	10	5
9.	Free training for selected programs (cost of books is excluded, if any).	Yes 3 seats	Yes 2 seats	Yes 1 seat	No
10.	Discounted rates, for all training provided by LCI-Q. Cost of books is excluded (if any).	Yes 20%	Yes 15%	Yes 10%	Yes 5%
11.	Thank you messages during selected events and in social media**	Yes 6 times/yr	Yes 4 times/yr	Yes twice/yr	Yes Once/yr
12.	Advertisements throughout the year.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
13.	Set of LCI-Q branding products	20	15	10	5
14.	Include sponsor’s details in LCI-Q website**	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
15.	Include sponsor names in LCI-Q newsletters and magazine, when published.**	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

* Acceptable branding (standard roll-up banners) shall be supplied by the respective sponsoring companies, and remain their property. Prior to production, the design of banners must be approved by LCI-Q in advance. Each sponsoring company will supply a digital high resolution quality of their organization name and logo for any printing and electronic use managed by LCI-Q along with any applicable policies or guidelines. By providing the log, the sponsoring organization is granting a formal consent and permission to LCI-Q to use it accordingly.

** Listing participating sponsors is based on the level of sponsorship and order of receiving commitment to sponsor.

Each year, we will be arranging a number of events and training programs aimed to develop the implementation of Lean Construction in Qatar. We would love to have you as one of the valuable founding sponsors of LCI-Q in these events.

With sincere thanks and appreciation, I highly value your invaluable contribution to advance the Lean Thinking practice in Qatar. Together we will support transforming the construction industry in Qatar to enhance performance of projects and services by generating value, eliminating waste, increasing efficiency, and maximizing productivity to contribute to building a better Qatar!

We look forward to collaborating with you in enhancing construction industry in Qatar towards realizing Qatar Vision 2030.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact LCI-Qatar’s office at info@Lci.qa .

Regards,

Dr. Abdulla Yaqoub Al-Sayed

President

Wire Transfer or Direct Deposit: Beneficiary Name: Lean Construction Institute – Qatar (Address: PO Box 13374, Doha, Qatar Beneficiary Bank: Qatar National Bank QNB Current Account No.: 0251-104042-001 IBAN: QA74QNBA000000000251104042001

Lean Construction Education Program (LCEP) of AGC
LCI-Q has entered in a collaboration agreement with the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) to facilitate Lean Construction Education Program (LCEP) and the examination of Certificate of Management – Lean Construction (CM-Lean) in the Middle East. CM-Lean exam will be offered on Saturdays at Qatar University.