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High-Performance Leadership #2 - High-Performance Teams Need High-performance Leadership
If you were leading a Formula One pit crew, what characteristics would that crew need to epitomize to be a high-performance team?
The Effects of BIM and Lean Construction on Design Management Practices
Modern construction processes, such as building information modeling (BIM) and lean construction, can help to combat these common issues and make the entire construction process more efficient.
Innovations in Sustainable Construction Practices: Paving the Way to a Greener Future
In a world confronting the formidable challenges of climate change and environmental degradation, the construction industry stands at the forefront of transformation. This transformation is driven by an urgent need to embrace sustainable practices.
High-Performance Leadership #1 - Why We Need to Re-Think Leadership and Get New Skills
Most of us immediately think of someone in a top position, an organization leader, project leader, team leader, political leader, worship leader, etc. “Leader” is a title.
Integrating Design and Construction using the VDC Framework
Many projects struggle with innovation because they approach it through a siloed perspective. Some projects are great at contech, BIM, or lean. Very few projects have a means of integrating all these great ideas together.
How is Your Company Progressing in its Lean Journey? Use this Lean Check-Up
This is a basic assessment to help you evaluate where your company is in its Lean journey and identify opportunities for improvement.
The start of the takt production was boosted by Porsche and cruise ships
In the early 2010s, Aleksi Heinonen learned how to renovate all 1,500 hotel rooms on a cruise ship in two weeks. He thought that Porsche's lessons in takt production applied to the project could be of interest to builders.
Get Communication Flowing And Keep Your Jobsite Going
Coordination issues on a construction site can spread like wildfire. This comes as no surprise to anyone. Why? There are so many moving parts in any one given day/hour/minute during the life of any job.
Design Process Stability: A Key to Success
Design and construction organisations are constantly looking for ways to improve their design processes, and the ability to deliver high-quality design. This blog post discusses the impact of batch size, throughput time, and reliability on the stability of the design process.
Revolutionizing the Construction Industry with One-Piece Flow
The unique power of Lean lies in its ability to maximize quality and resource productivity by minimizing throughput time and Work-In-Process. A key element of this strategy is the implementation of one-piece flow.