Lean Building
Lean Building Blog: What to Read on Lean
Today, a sharp young guy named Ryan wrote to me after seeing a Keynote Presentation I did at the recent BuilderExchange meeting in Las Vegas. Two-…
Construction Quality
8 Essentials to Achieving Quality by Prevention, Part III
In the final installment of a three-part series on quality management, operations expert Scott Sedam offers a roadmap for achieving the highest level of quality management — quality by prevention.
Lean Building
Lean Building Blog: Who has the edge on innovation?
Last fall the president of one of America’s “Top 10” builders who I have known for years corralled me at a conference. Because I travel this…
National Housing Quality Award
Lean Building Blog: Should the National Housing Quality Award survive?
The NAHB in conjunction with Professional Builder Magazine launched the National Housing Quality Award (NHQA) in 1993 to encourage and recognize…
Construction Quality
Where Does Quality Management Go From Here? Part II
In this second installment of a three-part series, leading builders and quality experts offer their take on the state of quality in home building and the industry’s next steps
Lean Building Blog: There is no future in pessimism
Our business picked up in late 2011, started the New Year off well, and we were deluged at the IBS show, beginning with a standing-room-only…
Lean Builder Blog: IBS and The Learning Organizations
Peter Senge wrote one of the best business books of the 1990’s, The Learning Organization. It is one of those on my list to pull off the shelf and…
Construction Quality
The Evolution of Quality Management in Home Building, Part I
Assessing the state of quality management in home building
The Lean Building Blog: Buying by the square foot — an anti-Lean practice
There is nothing in homebuilding that makes less sense than purchasing by the square foot and it is a big obstacle in Lean implementation. Other…
The Lean Builder: Fixing Architecture I
In my blog two weeks ago, I launched into a tirade about how so many residential architects are not doing their job. Each week, I link this blog…
