How to Improve Home Building Productivity, Part 1: Simplify, Standardize
Simplifying and standardizing your processes and purchasing creates efficiencies that save money and time and attract the best trade partners
How to Optimize Your Plan Portfolio and Gain an Edge on the Competition, Part 1
To stay ahead of the competition, simply value engineering your homes is not enough. Adopt a performance-based mindset
Home Exteriors See Value Engineering by Home Builders
To contend with current cost pressures, home builders are taking steps to value engineer the exteriors of their homes
3 Ways Lean Design Can Help Home Builders Recover Margins
Using a Lean design and construction approach, home builders can reduce waste and costs without sacrificing amenities or marketability of their product
Reducing 3 Types of Construction Waste to Increase Home Builder Profit
Waste in home building is a much broader term than most home builders think. Here’s how builders can take stock of all forms of waste throughout the construction process to achieve greater profitability
Commodity Purchasing? There’s No Such Thing
Do you know all of the elements of the true total cost and total benefit for all of the products you put in your homes?
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Techniques to Reduce Waste at Construction Sites Gain Favor
Five new methods are attracting attention
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Even Lean Is Local
It's said that home building is a local business. Regardless, you should still measure all of your costs
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3 Ways to Huge Profits Through Lean Design
Production builders are reducing construction costs by thousands through the use of Lean design techniques. Architect and Lean design expert Todd Hallett demonstrates how to get started
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How Do You Lead a Leader?
Without buy-in from top management, Lean practices are sure to fizzle out over time. So what does it take to get support from the very top?
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The rule of 8, 9, 12 but never 16
Todd Hallett and I are running a LeanPlan Workout session this week in Tennessee with one of my favorite builders. In the years I have known them…
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5 Proven Ways to Optimize Construction Framing
Advanced framing can save materials and time while boosting your homes’ efficiencies. Here are five techniques that can be adopted independently
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,…
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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…
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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…
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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-…
