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construction

Only a change in mindset and behaviors produces a lean project.

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Construction industy not making any significant gains with fatalities

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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Pay attention: OSHA has fined Broadway Concrete for 15 willful violations involving fall protection and unprotected rebar on a 50-story NYC building. Let’s not let it happen again.
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Sustainable design of the built environment depends on adjusting — maybe overhauling — our design practices. Target-Value Design might just be that approach.

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It’s time manufacturers acquired their facilities on a lean basis. They now can with lean design and construction.

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Herrero Contractors is currently the best of the lean contractors.

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Not speaking and not listening contribute in significant ways to the failure of projects. Take the pledge…act more responsibly…start speaking and listening.

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Boston Globe takes construction industry to task for poor management.

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IGLC is reaching out to industry by introducing Quick n Easy Kaizen and Training with Industry’s J-Programs at the 2007 conference in East Lansing, Michigan.

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Job Methods (JM) improvement is the TWI approach for systematically stripping waste from a set of steps or a process. The beauty of it is it can easily be taught. That differs from Six Sigma’s DMAIC or from the usual lean kaizen workshops.

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The International Group for Lean Construction is meeting in the US in 2007. Don’t miss it!

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Projects happen in an always-uncertain and unknowable future. Facing up to that is the key to improving project planning.

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Making work ready is the way to follow the rule “Only do work that is ready to be started and finished.”

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There is an immediate way to reduce construction jobsite hazards to improve safety. Adopt a single new rule.

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Lean Construction Congress 2006: Some of the biggest projects in the world have been going on in the UK…and they’ve used the lean construction approach.

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Turner Construction extols the benefits of Lean Construction on their healthcare projects.

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There is no company doing a better job with lean construction than Messer.

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Tags: LastPlanner, construction, lean

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Lean construction is a world-wide movement. LCI’s Lean Construction Congress 2006 featured reports from South America, and Europe, both in voice-over slide shows and in person.

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Lean construction has been adopted at the leading housing developer in Peru making them the most efficient producer and the envy of the industry

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Industrial production of housing is taking off in Sweden based on lean construction approaches

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Sundt’s Apollo Project

by Hal on November 8, 2006

in Last Planner, construction, lean

Learn from Sundt’s first lean construction project

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Tags: construction, design, lean

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This Changes Everything

by Hal on November 8, 2006

in construction, design, lean

The lean construction story of a breakthrough project performed by a committed and enlightened team

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The Lean Construction Congress participants were fully engaged with the Sutter Health presentations. Read their highlights, questions, and Sutter’s answers.

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