Turner Construction is embracing lean construction in their healthcare projects
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construction
A new lean construction partitioner shares his early experiences
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A lean project conducted by DPR for Sutter Health
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Sutter’s lean process mapped to Toyota’s 4Ps and the Five Big Ideas
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Read about Sutter Health’s lean construction program as described at the Lean Construction Institute’s Lean Congress 2006
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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Congress has begun in San Francisco. I’ll blog the presentations, as best as I can. Keep checking back… Slide presentations and recordings will be available at the Lean Construction Institute website.
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Construction project management is changing. The Lean Construction Institute is behind it.
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Construction project management is about building bridges…and when we do it in lean ways society benefits.
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Lean construction approaches for eliminating the hidden factory.
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Construction safety needs to be everyone’s concern working in the industry. Great strides have been made by many companies. Yet people are being injured in roughly the same numbers as they have been for the last 15 years. OSHA issued these violations1 in the year ending September 2006:
Scaffolding, General Requirements (7895 violations)
Duty [...]
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Productivity Press has a lean blog. Have a look.
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IGLC-14: Project Theory
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In the heart of KY you’ll find a keen lean resource.
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Lean means learning from everyone. Read these 29 lessons for lean construction following a visit to Toyota.
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Our move to Colorado has been a re-learning opportunity in small design and construction projects. I’m pleased to share our learning with you…
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Best-value bidding is on a roll. But the ABC of PA is intent to stop the momentum. I’ve got my money on PA. Read on…
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Global builder Skanska is “unleashing their construction workcrews” using technology. Read on to learn how they increased productivity 20%…
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Lean Construction is an international is an international movement that crosses many industry boundaries. Read about lean efforts is Chile and California…
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Planned shutdown maintenance of large capital facilities appears to be an ideal situation for lean construction approaches. The Boldt Company share their experience — both successes and failures — on their first attempt rebuilding a paper machine. There’s plenty of learning for all of us doing lean projects. Read on…
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Air Products operates gas plants throughout the US. Each plant need regular mainenance and upgrade of facilities. They do that during a planned outage. The recently finished a first project applying lean construction principles and the Last Planner System. They shared what they learned and the outstanding planning system performance at LCI’s 7th Congress.
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Day one of LCI’s 7th Lean Construction Congress wrapped up with a panel discussion with the teams who did Sutter Health’s first lean construction projects. The audience questions were probing and the panel members didn’t disappoint. Read on…
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Here is a description of a big success story adopting lean construction as a company-wide approach. Messer Construction shared their lessons learned and their plans to take lean construction further to a very attentive audience at LCI’s Lean Construction Congress. Read on…
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One of the more exciting sessions of the Lean Construction Institute’s 7th Congress was the morning panel conversation. Three presenters shared their candid remarks about what is working and why. Read on…
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Sutter Health has moved away from their usual contracting approach. They have adopted an integrated agreement that all parties sign. It supports Sutter’s imperative to the AEC industry to deliver their projects on a lean basis. Read about Will’s presentation at LCI’s 7th Congress…
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? Guy Kawasaki wrote, "Less is the new more." Easy to learn: symmetry, seduction, subtraction, and sustainability. Very valuable to do. Step 1: Read Matt's book!! just 140 keystrokes.
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Did the WSJ Get It Wrong about Lean and Taylor?
by Hal on November 6, 2006
in commentary, construction, lean
Construction project management is threatened by conventional wisdom…even the wisdom of the Wall Street Journal.
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