Exploring the Nuances of Hard Work: Insights for making work better

Understanding and identifying hard work is a crucial part of enhancing safety and efficiency in every trade. This can be accomplished through the categorization of tasks, breaking down workflow steps, and mitigating the elements of work that are stealing life from our dwindling workforce.

The Core Reason Your Capital Projects Take Longer to Deliver

There are a few primary benefits and a host of secondary benefits to completing a capital project quickly. Here are important primary benefits. Time to revenue is reduced and your investment is serving the people it is designed to help. Carrying costs during construction are reduced.

Aiming for Zero Quality Control

The skill sets and knowledge required to install services to the Client’s standards and in a semi-conductor environment were not widely available in the industry. We developed suitable training classes to bridge the experience gap.

Breaking the Silence: Mental Health Awareness in the Construction Sector

Mental health in construction is often treated as taboo, despite its prevalence in this tough industry. This stigma prevents many workers from discussing their mental health or seeking help, which leads to alarming suicide rates, substance abuse, divorce, and other unaddressed mental health concerns.

A Beginner’s Guide to Learning about Lean Construction

In this blog post, I will share my guide for beginners. I will focus exclusively on what a beginners needs to focus on during the first 6 months of their lean journey.

High-Performance Leadership #7 - The Structure of Stakeholder Engagement

The traditional project management approach assumes that decisions should be made by top managers in each of the various trade and technical/managerial disciplines. When decisions affect others we assume that senior leaders will use their expertise to sell others on their ideas.

Construction’s 9th Waste – Conflict!

As Construction companies throughout the US and Canada focus on implementing Lean Construction methods to reduce Lean’s 8 wastes, more focus is needed on the construction industry’s 9th waste – Conflict!

Creating Flow in Pull Planning for Design

Pull Planning is used in Lean Design to plan and organize work to maximize efficiency and minimize waste. It involves setting specific goals and objectives for a project and then breaking those goals down into smaller tasks that can be completed in a specific order.

Capital Project Owner Decisionmaking is a Shared Responsibility

A common complaint on capital projects is that owners cannot quickly make decisions, and this delays progress on work. This is particularly true on projects where the ownership group includes multiple stakeholders that must align on key parts of the project design.

Better use of Data makes better Managers

One Wall Street CEO claimed, “That today’s businesses are drowning in data.” Managers have more data than ever before and more powerful computers to crunch the data, but they still lack the ability to turn the measures into meaningful actions.