Only a grocer would envy the construction business’s 3%-to-5% profit margins. On average, only about half of construction work planned for a given week gets done on schedule. Those two data points are ...

In 1998, Paul Reiser, a vice president at The Boldt Co., began his search for ways to increase productivity at his Appleton, Wis., general contracting company. He found "lean construction management," ...

Master of Science in Project Management (MPM) students are learning more about principles of Lean thinking to affect change in the construction industry. One of the major innovations in the world of ...

One lean-construction expert says Autodesk's BIM 360 suite, when complete, will bring about an egalitarian construction workflow in which the foreman can know as much as the BIM manager about the ...

The curriculum will introduce the fundamentals of lean construction practices and how progressive executives can use them to collaboratively and rapidly improve their enterprises. The course will use ...

Contractors that embrace lean construction principles in the name of reducing waste and enhancing value often discover other facets of their operations that are ripe for improvement. By using lean’s ...

Four years ago, the leaders of Akron (Ohio) Children's Hospital faced a pressing question as they began planning a new facility to house their neonatal intensive-care unit, outpatient surgery and ...

So, what is lean management exactly? Put in its most simple form, lean management is about eliminating waste without sacrificing productivity to improve work processes, purposes, stakeholder value, ...

The process of designing and constructing a building is markedly different from that of manufacturing a product. But adapting lean production-management concepts from manufacturing for use in ...

Description: Today's savvy contractors know that most dollars are made or lost in the execution phase of any project; and the current market is no time to leave money on the table. Who wouldn't want ...