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 ...

The software industry at the turn of the century needed a new direction. After years of preparing for Y2K, and then the dot-com crash, it was time for change. Industry leaders came together and ...

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 ...

Answer the following questions that I posed to contractors at an international meeting for construction owners and leaders. (Might make a great discussion topic with your leadership team.) Answers to ...

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 ...

While lean theories were first designed for and implemented in manufacturing, it has proven effective in reducing costs and improving productivity in HVAC construction. Lean seeks to minimize ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The National Building Museum and Turner Construction Company present the 11th Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction to Lean Construction Institute. Lean construction is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...