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," ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I started working in construction, as many did, at a young age, beginning as a gopher and working my way up. Now 55 years old, I was part of the generation that entered the workforce as computers and ...

Eliminate waste in coal, gas, or nuclear power plant construction through a holistic application of lean principles. “Lean thinking” is a set of principles that work to eliminate waste and create new ...

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 ...

A local construction expert has called on UAE contractors to adopt ‘lean thinking’ management techniques to achieve tangible savings on the activity and project levels. Moritz Miller, project partner ...