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The 5th article in my series on Quality Management was just published by Professional Builder Magazine and appears concurrently on www...

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I have spoken at PCBC, the big West Coast building conference most of the past 15 years and I always enjoy it. The event has been very well...

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My son Tyler (second of 4 children), age 29, is taking a new position with a homebuilder after having two good building industry jobs in the...

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Lean Building Blog: What Lean isn’t

During an orientation recently with a room full of suppliers and trades for one of our “LeanPlan Workout” implementations, I was interrupted...

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Lean Building Blog: What to Read on Lean

Today, a sharp young guy named Ryan wrote to me after seeing a Keynote Presentation I did at the recent BuilderExchange meeting in Las Vegas...

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Last fall the president of one of America’s “Top 10” builders who I have known for years corralled me at a conference. Because I travel this...

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The NAHB in conjunction with Professional Builder Magazine launched the National Housing Quality Award (NHQA) in 1993 to encourage and...

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Our business picked up in late 2011, started the New Year off well, and we were deluged at the IBS show, beginning with a standing-room-only...

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There is nothing in homebuilding that makes less sense than purchasing by the square foot and it is a big obstacle in Lean implementation....

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With the February edition of Professional Builder, I begin a series on the evolution of quality management. Here is a more detailed version...

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