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Construction Collaboration

The Cloud: An Essential Tool in 21st Century Construction Collaboration

The term “construction collaboration” means all involved on a jobsite are working together toward the same end goal: a well constructed building delivered on-time and on budget. While understanding the term is simple, the actual implementation of construction collaboration can often be challenging.

Materials Management

Materials Management – What You Need to Know

In a nutshell, construction materials management is the A-Z operation of budgeting, sourcing, ordering, obtaining, storing and disposing of construction materials. Relationally, materials management has the power to positively or negatively impact every other aspect of a construction project including design, budget, timelines, code compliance,

lean construction

Lean Construction – What Is It?

The concept of lean operation has been around since 1948 when Japanese industrial engineers Taiichi Ohono and Eji Toyoda began developing the idea in order to improve efficiency in Toyota’s assembly line vehicle production. Building on its success in manufacturing, lean’s revolutionary methodology has been