Lufat Rahman
Virtual Design & Construction Manager Turner Construction Company
Lufat Rahman is a Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) Manager at Turner Construction Company, where she leads the strategic planning and execution of VDC initiatives across projects and operations. In her role, she oversees departmental and project-level budgets, managing forecasting, financial performance, and resource allocation, including third-party services, staffing, and technology investments.
Lufat plays a key role in aligning VDC strategies with project goals by developing and approving action plans, schedules, and proposals in response to client and project requirements. She is also responsible for workforce planning, ensuring teams are effectively resourced through hiring, capacity planning, and task coordination.
With a strong focus on innovation, Lufat actively researches and evaluates emerging digital tools, identifying opportunities for pilot programs and in-house development to enhance project delivery. She regularly engages with project sites to support implementation, troubleshoot challenges, and collaborate with clients, design teams, and internal stakeholders to drive successful outcomes.
Lufat brings a combination of technical expertise, financial oversight, and leadership to advance VDC practices and deliver value across complex construction projects.
Seminars
- Developing effective feedback loops to uncover where there are critical gaps in our technology stack that cannot be filled by other solutions, and identifying which individuals and teams should be involved in this process
- Sharing internal processes to verify whether a tool solves core problems without creating workflow burden, engaging technology users with tool selection
- Ensuring the evaluation process is centralized to mitigate the creation of tech stack duplications and redundancies
