Whether you’re building homes, remodeling commercial offices, or working on a very complex IPD project, there are a few key things to borrow from the Scrum framework to ensure a successful outcome, no matter your current phase of work. Construction projects can be complex and time-consuming, especially smaller projects. I …
Have you ever felt you did everything right on your construction project? You hired a design firm familiar with your campus and the project type. The general contractor joined the project early and did numerous constructability reviews. The design incorporates feedback from the construction team in the permitted documents. The …
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“Soft Waste” in the construction supply chain is caused by bad communication, duplicate data entry, unclear responsibilities, or human error, is one of the eight forms of waste in lean manufacturing. Duplicate data entry was also one of the five pains identified in our 2019 report for ELECTRI International where …
Have you ever been on a construction project where the owners, architects, engineers, and contractors have used their own tools, which lacked interoperability? Did you experience data loss because it had to be entered multiple times? As Executive Director of the Construction Progress Coalition, a non-for-profit organization focused on the …
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Construction Scrum: How to Deliver Projects Easier, Better, and Faster is the first practical guide for construction professionals to implement the Scrum framework in the construction industry. The book is organized in three parts. Part one is a series of short stories that illustrate how Scrum works in design and …
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Felipe Engineer-Manriquez is the brain behind the podcast The Easier, Better, for Construction Show, which focuses on Lean IPD in construction and sharing how to make large construction projects easier and better. The following questions are an extract from Episode 11 where we chatted about: Building with Integrated Project Delivery …
The healthcare industry is growing. According to Revista’s construction report, “from June 2018 to June 2019 over 21 million square feet of medical office space have been delivered across the country” (Revista, Hilda Martin, 2019) and this number is expected to continue to grow. The report further states that “preliminary …
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What if you as a project owner in healthcare could build faster, control your supply chain, increase the quality of the finished product, and lower costs by utilizing an industrialized construction approach? Sounds too good to be true? Read on. At Mark III, we are fuelled by our vision to …
Project Mountain: Build Better, Faster, and Cheaper READ MORE
Are you one of those people who think that Scrum is for a bunch of software nerds who sit around programming all day? Maybe it’s time to shift your perspective. Yes, Scrum originally took hold in the Software industry as companies realized how Scrum allowed them to adopt and react …
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In many presentations, I have asked these questions: “How many of you consider yourselves to be effective collaborators?” (Most people raise their hands) “How many of you have worked with someone who wasn’t an effective collaborator? (Everyone raises their hands) “And if those people were in the room today, …
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