We continue in our series on Lean Construction and the seven major “wastes” found in our effort to construct quality that is safe, productive and profitable. Let’s examine the waste that can come from ...

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 ...

ENR has a webinar on October 25th relating to how CPM and Lean Construction planning and scheduling conflict or complement each other. The webinar will be available for view for an entire year until ...

Waste that provides more services, effort or energy either before it is needed or in addition to what is needed. Examples of overproduction could be putting extra laborers on a project, assigning ...

When it comes to business planning, companies often think that they are pigeonholed into one of two options: either follow the traditional route and create a static, one-time business plan that ...

According to The Kauffman Foundation, in 2014, an average of more than 500,000 adults in the United States became entrepreneurs in each month during the year. Chances are, some of these entrepreneurs ...

Simply put, lean is the practice of creating more value with fewer resources. The concept is inspired by the Japanese management theory from Toyota, where lean concepts are designed to improve and ...