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," ...

In the early years of my business career (mid ’80s), I was introduced to the concepts of Total Quality Management. My company was totally focused — from the top down — on removing inefficiencies from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

EMDC and MPM Adjunct Professor Rich Seiler is an expert in lean construction and wants his students to understand the principles that make it so important The construction industry has evolved in ...