President

Denis Leonard has a degree in construction engineering an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in quality management. Denis is a Fellow of the American Society for Quality, a Certified Quality Manager, Auditor and Six Sigma Black Belt. He has been an Examiner for the Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Examiners a Judge on the International Team Excellence Competition and a Lead Judge on the National Housing Quality Award. A former Professor of Quality at the University of Wisconsin, he has experience as a quality manager in the homebuilding industry as well as construction engineer, site manager and in training, auditing and consulting with expertise in strategic and operational quality improvement initiatives. His work has achieved national quality, environmental and safety management awards for clients.

Denis is co-author of 'The Executive Guide to Understanding and Implementing the Baldrige Criteria: Improve Revenue and Create Organizational Excellence'.

http://www.BusinessExcellenceConsulting.net

DenisLeonard@BusinessExcellenceConsulting.net

Full listing of blogs http://www.housingzone.com/author/denis-leonard

Scopes of Work and Checklists downloads

Scopes of Work are a key tool in ensuring Quality Management in a building company. Here are a series of links to Scopes and Checklists that can help you create or improve your Scopes.

This link is to a doc with 4 scopes and checklists for excavation, backfill, foundation, framing and HVAC.

http://www.homeinnovation.com/~/media/Files/Reports/Scopes_of_Work.pdf

Crawlspaces

http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/publications/pdfs/building_america/crawlspace_found_retrofit.pdf

A hotspot guide http://www.homeinnovation.com/~/media/Files/Reports/HotspotImplementationGuideandTools.pdf

Here is a link (it will download automatically as a word doc) for a general whole high performing house scope of work and series of check lists.

https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/sites/default/files/HP%20SOW-complete.doc

For another blog on Checklists go to

http://www.housingzone.com/blog/value-checklists