In 1998, Paul Reiser, a vice president at The Boldt Co., began his search for ways to increase productivity at his Appleton, Wis., general contracting company. He found "lean construction management," ...

Using Lean principles and integrated delivery, Mortenson cut design and permitting time to six months through early alignment ...

One lean-construction expert says Autodesk's BIM 360 suite, when complete, will bring about an egalitarian construction workflow in which the foreman can know as much as the BIM manager about the ...

I started working in construction, as many did, at a young age, beginning as a gopher and working my way up. Now 55 years old, I was part of the generation that entered the workforce as computers and ...

Lean management, a philosophy that strives to deliver the most value in the least wasteful way possible, is finding its way from a “manufacturing thing” into the commercial real estate industry. JE ...

The process of designing and constructing a building is markedly different from that of manufacturing a product. But adapting lean production-management concepts from manufacturing for use in ...

ARLINGTON, VA--(Marketwired - Oct 17, 2016) - Lean Construction Institute once again brought the Lean Construction community together October 3-7 for its 18th annual LCI Congress in Chicago, Illinois.

With a 116-year history, The Boldt Company is no stranger to change. This fourth-generation, family-owned firm has evolved from its roots in general contracting into a diversified organization ...

Four years ago, the leaders of Akron (Ohio) Children's Hospital faced a pressing question as they began planning a new facility to house their neonatal intensive-care unit, outpatient surgery and ...

is a design management process that is applied most often within the construction sector. Its applicability to natural resources management is evident through the similarities between construction ...