The process of designing and constructing a building is markedly different from that of manufacturing a product. But adapting lean production-management concepts from manufacturing for use in ...

Lean construction is the application of lean thinking, principles and tools to the lifecycle of capital construction. Although the International Group for Lean Construction (ILGC) coined the term at ...

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 ...

Every contractor has seen it happen: a project design that, for whatever reason, exceeds the owner's budget. If there's no leeway to spend more—and these days, there usually isn't—the contractor has ...

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 ...

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 ...

The construction industry is undergoing a transformative shift as lean methodologies are increasingly integrated with sustainable practices. This approach seeks to enhance project delivery by ...

SAN DIEGO — You may employ lean construction techniques — the continuous-improvement process that aims to eliminate wasted work. And you may have participated on or heard about integrated project ...

Over-processing is applying more resources than are required, needed or requested. Examples include using copper instead of PVC, getting additional signatures on requisitions, duplicating data on ...

The winners of the 2025 Erickson Strong Scholarship are Alicia Carella of Roman Electric and Tony Ramos of Plumbers Local 75.

"If you build it, they will come” may be a Hollywood movie line, but it also describes the push strategy that is sometimes employed in the composites industry — introduce a compelling innovation with ...