The Lean Builder The Lean Builder Blog: Turnkey or not? I am frequently asked, what is the right way to buy labor and materials? Should you use turnkey suppliers and trades or should you purchase...
Builders The Lean and Green Blog: Lesson 3 - 'Lots' of opportunity Down here in the south, you will often hear the phrase, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” When it comes to lot preparation, we seem to fix...
Construction Quality The Lean Design Blog: 5 most common construction drawing mishaps Construction drawings are complex and getting them right involves a whole lot of moving parts. From working with builder and trades...
Customer Satisfaction Black Friday - Where Were The Builders? The 2011 “Black Friday” sales numbers are in and show a pleasantly surprising 16% gain in year-over-year retail sales! Some economists,...
Quality Management What and where to improve? What and where do I start to improve? This is a common question and while we need to balance the cost and impact to identify the real bang...
Building Operations Giving thanks is not just for Thanksgiving! Well ladies and gentleman, we made it through another year. A year of bankruptcies with several top 100 builders, uncertainty in the job...
Management The Lean Builder Blog: Truck or trailer? What would Lean say? The Lean Perspective is by no means limited to sticks and bricks issues on the construction site. When we talk Lean building we are really...
Construction Quality The Lean and Green Blog: Lesson 2 — Change your frames At a recent conference, I shared an analogy that bears repeating here. The auto industry has experienced tremendous changes over the past...
Construction Quality Lean Design Blog: Poof! Make $200 of foundation waste disappear like magic Do you remember David Copperfield making the statue of liberty disappear? It was pretty cool, but I felt certain the green lady was not...
Quality Management Construction company views on ISO9001 in the UK A UK study of those using the ISO9001 Quality Management System in the construction industry had a number of interesting findings that...
