Clients are more frequently requesting builders and architects bring lean and/or integrated practices to their projects. How do you address this request, especially when many clients are in the beginning stages of understanding lean project delivery? How do you work beyond the buzzwords and have a meaningful conversation in your qualifications package, proposal and the […]
Essential Conversations for Project Success
In our current environment the ability to navigate change and work remotely with your team is more important than ever. Teams need to reinvent the way work is happening in order to deliver successful projects in the current environment of uncertainty. Teams that have the right conversations thrive in environments of uncertainty and change. LeanProject […]
What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate
As many of us work from home using Zoom conferencing and the phone, there has been a lot of concern about how to keep our social contacts and our work teams intact. If we are all working remotely in our own homes and using the internet to communicate, how can we continue to hold the […]
Building a Lean Culture Interactive Course Offering
Lean design and construction practices require that members on a project team work together in an environment of trust, ambition, resolution, and common care. This environment needs to be cultivated through the development of a shared team identity focused on a common meaningful purpose for delivering the project. This course integrates project experiences with research exploring […]
Making Up for Lost Time
The pandemic related economic slowdown is impacting building projects in a variety of ways. Reports from projects across the United States include delays related to manpower shortages and additional physical distancing measures to complete shutdowns due to state or local mandates. Project starts have been delayed, by as much as six months, given present uncertainties. […]