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Quality Management

Clean job sites…who cares!?

Disorganized and untidy job sites are covered with destroyed or damaged materials, reflect chaos between trades, reduce productivity and...

Lean Design

Headers, headers everywhere! Nearly every builder I have ever worked with (regardless of geography) initially had far too many headers and...

Quality Management

Talent management and best practices

We spend a lot of time and effort training our teams and developing them in our culture and so the retention and ongoing development of our...

Quality Management

Sustainability and social responsibility

The construction industry dramatically impacts the environment, with buildings consuming 17 percent of the world’s fresh water, 25 percent...

Lean Design

Lots of matrimony talk lately. From the saccharin sweet royal wedding to the much publicized split between J’Lo and Marc Anthony - some...

The Lean Builder

Defining Value to the Customer

One person's better value can be another's substandard. So how do you define value to the customer?

Best Practices

I took a detour the last two years in my consulting career in residential home building by leading one of the largest real estate brokerage...

Great Solutions for Builders

We just caught wind of some big news on the customer satisfaction front: J.D. Power and Associates has canceled its 2011 U.S. New-Home...

Quality Management

Home Builder Scopes of Work

One of the keys to a successful builder and home is a strong set of scopes of work

Quality Management

I am not a car nor am I a piece of meat, so please don’t service or process me, I am a customer! But those terms and attitudes still exist. ...

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