When Julie’s kids complain about another student not doing their part in a group project, she tells them, “Get used to it. Life is a group project.” There are very few professions in which people don’t interact with or rely...
We covered a lot of ground in the first installment of the 2018 Profile of the Electrical Contractor. We learned electrical contractors are getting older, primarily work for smaller companies and mostly saw their firms’ head...
Just 20 years ago, open communication between the trades and management about day-to-day work was not the norm. Herman Ballard wrote in his Ph.D. thesis, “The Last Planner System of Production Control,” it is essential to...
When a 4.6-acre luxury residential construction project was being built on the site of a former hospital, it was quite an undertaking. It included building 373 apartments, food retailers and parking, and the workers had to be...
Most in the construction industry should be familiar with building information modeling (BIM). Autodesk defines it as “an intelligent 3-D model-based process that equips architecture, engineering, and construction...
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” When automaker Henry Ford said these words, he could have been describing the intended outcome of collaborating on construction...
