The Lean Builder
Construction Quality
10 steps to mastering field quality – A positive indicator for a recovering industry
The 5th article in my series on Quality Management was just published by Professional Builder Magazine and appears concurrently on www.HousingZone…
Operations
Lean Builder Blog: Do operations still matter on the West Coast?
I have spoken at PCBC, the big West Coast building conference most of the past 15 years and I always enjoy it. The event has been very well-run,…
Lean Building
Lean Building Blog: How to get ahead in home building by really trying
My son Tyler (second of 4 children), age 29, is taking a new position with a homebuilder after having two good building industry jobs in the past…
Lean Building
Lean Building Blog: What Lean isn’t
During an orientation recently with a room full of suppliers and trades for one of our “LeanPlan Workout” implementations, I was interrupted by a…
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-…
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…
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…
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: Our future – Fairmont or Fusion
With the February edition of Professional Builder, I begin a series on the evolution of quality management. Here is a more detailed version of an…
