Taft Cincinnati partner Joe Cleves has been selected to serve a two year term as chair of the Cancer Support Community (CSC) board. The CSC is dedicated to ensuring that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community. 

Cleves, a partner in Taft’s Construction and Real Estate groups, has extensive experience in lean construction, a practice designed to maximize value and minimize waste throughout the construction process, and with integrated project delivery (“IPD”), a process uniquely suited to put lean construction principals into practice. He has consulted on multi-million dollar developments across the nation, incorporating IPD as a means to delivering value to all phases of design, fabrication and construction.