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2015 Construction Marketing Resolutions For Career Growth and More Sales

Construction Marketing

With 2014 in the rearview mirror, and 2015 upon us, it’s time to plan out our resolutions once again. Just as losing weight and saving money could top your list of personal goals, becoming a more lean marketer and improving the value of marketing efforts could top your professional goals as a construction marketer. dexknows.com.

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Balfour Beatty Construction Advances Lean Journey at LCI Congress 2015

Construction Superintendent Magazine

DALLAS, Texas -- Lean design and construction champions from Balfour Beatty Construction joined industry peers, building owners and trade partners to collaborate and share ideas at the recent 17th Annual Lean Construction Institute Congress 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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LEAN Construction Delivery – Not New

Building Information Management

While LEAN Construction Delivery Methods have existing for decades are are proven to improve productivity, reduce waste, lower cost, speed delivery, and improve quality… most real property owners lack the required capability, understanding, and/or awareness for implementation. The focus of LEAN is best value and minimized waste.

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Viewpoint: Dispelling Myths About Lean Construction

ENR Construction

When I met John Shook, one of the world’s leading lean management experts in Boston at the Lean Construction Institute Congress in 2015, a colleague asked him how far the construction industry in the U.S. has come with lean construction after 17 years.

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OpenJOC – LEAN Construction Delivery / Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

OpenJOC, a term coined by Four BT, LLC, is the deployment of Job Order Contracting based upon LEAN construction delivery best management practices. OpenJOC leverages processes, standardized cost data , and technology to drive win-win relationships among all project participants and on-time, on-budget, quality construction outcomes.

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Job Order Contracting – Lean Construction History

Job Order Contracting

The LEAN Integrated Construction Project Delivery Method. . It did so in response to a growing need for increasing and unsupportable demands for construction throughout Europe. The later are relatively new to JOC and are learning to improve their implementation and deployment of this LEAN construction delivery method.

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Construction Equation: Knowledge Problems + Data Problems + Management Problems = Outcome Problems

Job Order Contracting

Lack of recognition by senior management of the linkage between between the built environment and organizational mission Low level of understanding of both life-cycle total-cost-of-ownership management and integrated lean planning, procurement, and project delivery principles and processes. Construction Management and Economics.