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For those that want to know how we got to *here, read this article by my buddy, John Strickland, fellow #changemaker. *present lean construction practices

Surviving Stagflation: 3 Ways Construction Leaders Can Preserve Their Bottom Line

Surviving Stagflation: 3 Ways Construction Leaders Can Preserve Their Bottom Line

Surviving Stagflation: 3 Ways Construction Leaders Can Preserve Their Bottom Line

Planning for Efficiency: Lean Construction Construction is full of moving parts, and keeping them all in sync can be a challenge. Lean principles offer a powerful approach to streamline processes and eliminate waste. Here's how planning for lean construction can benefit your projects: 1) Identify Value: Focus on what truly matters to your client. Is it speed, cost-effectiveness, or a sustainable build? Understanding their priorities helps you prioritize tasks that deliver the most value. Good collaborative routines are key 2) Eliminate Waste: Construction is riddled with inefficiencies. Lean helps identify and remove wasteful activities – like waiting for materials or rework due to errors. 3) Optimise Workflow: Plan your project like a well-oiled machine. Lean principles encourage a smooth flow of tasks, minimising delays and keeping projects on schedule. How often do you move materials? 4)Continuous Improvement: Lean isn't a one-time fix. It's a continuous process of analysis and refining your approach. Regularly evaluate your workflows and identify areas for further improvement. It truely is about building smarter, not just working harder. Looking forward to sharing progress and continuous improving with a great team #construction #leanconstruction #efficiency #willmottdixon #planning

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Join us for one of the FREE upcoming webinar on #leanconstruction. Cost - Zero Dollars, Zero Euros, Zero Yen, Zero whatever currency you use. Potential gain - a whole new way of thinking about and running your projects based on insights and research from industry leaders. According to this equation, the benefit to cost ratio is infinite. So only those that truly don't want to join would not. Here is the upcoming schedule: April - What is Lean Construction by Doanh Do 🏗️ 👷♂️ May - Using Lean Construction and the Last Planner System in Multi-Family Construction with A. Kyle Myers David MacKay Colin Milberg June - Learn and Apply Mistakeproofing! with Iris D. Tommelein Lisa Gibson, P.GSC, LEED® Green Associate™, CM-Lean Diksha Thakur, C.E.T. July - Uncovering the real impact of Variability in the construction industry with Leonardo Rischmoller August - Adventures of applying Takt in Construction with Aleksi Heinonen We have a FREE webinar every month. If you can't make one, join the one that you can attend. If you can't attend live, sign up and you can watch the recording. It is that simple. We make lean design and construction accessible so that the industry can use it. We make the knowledge available so that those that choose to use it can do so, those that choose not to join also do so deliberately. Lean Construction Blog WEAVERCOOKE Milestone Lean Consulting LLC ASKM Associates University of California, Berkeley Ledcor Stanford University DPR Construction Vison Oy

Free webinar on Lean Construction. Let’s remove the stigma in 2024 and learn more from various resources why this may be beneficial to you and your projects thus year.

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Some reflections on the Construction Playbook this morning, thanks to Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) for the roundtable invite and to Robert White for sharing this John Ruskin quote: “It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.” It reminded me of a recent lecture we had from University College Dublin on negotiation strategy, it is advisable to bundle criteria (MESO – multiple equivalent simultaneous offers) and gain consensus via ‘log rolling’ i.e., make low cost high value exchanges, to expand the pie and not leave value on the table. Integrative negotiations create value and expand the pie, rather than fighting about how much of the pie individuals can get for themselves. “Protect your interests but be flexible about how they are met” – knowing that if the “pie split” at the end of the day is unfair, you’ve damaged the relationship for the next outing. Image from InReach Solutions via Medium.com