Customer Satisfaction The Need For Speed To home builders, speed is a highly valued commodity. It is not unusual to hear home builders boast about fast build cycles, lightening...
Green Design The Lean and Green Blog: Lesson 1 – Waste Not, Be Green Becoming a sustainable, green builder needs to follow a structured process that allows a builder to shape green features to fit with their...
Design The Lean Design Blog: Bad details cost you more than you think Have you ever looked at a detail on a plan and scratched your head wondering how that was going to work? Sometimes the details that show up...
The Lean Builder The Lean Building Blog: The problem with architects Last year PB received an official complaint letter from a high level staffer at the AIA, basically saying that I was being unfair to...
Quality Management Mental blocks to creativity Often the main block to creativity is actually a mental block. Thoughts or comments such as these can stop creativity in its tracks. Im...
Building Operations Don't let your ego get in the way of cost savings Talking to builders today about improving the cost and efficiency can be an interesting proposition. When the topic is directed to managing...
Quality Management How consistent is your business? When was the last time you did some walk arounds in your business, asked your customer service or construction teams some basic questions,...
The Sweet Spot Avoiding the hard housing questions One of the most depressing/astounding/frustrating things about the current race for president has been the complete lack of attention to...
Green Design The Lean & Green Blog: Lessons NOT Learned The building industry, unfortunately, continues to make the same mistakes over and over again. Green building remains one of the most talked...
Sales + Marketing The Lean Design Blog: Floor plan renderings? That's whack! Last week I nagged you about elevation renderings, this week the focus is on floor plan renderings. Floor plan renderings are an easy way to...
