Andy Fulton – Lean Design Construction Blog

Picture this: You’re at a conference lunch, maybe the Lean Construction Institute Congress, and you find yourself at a table

Why Many Lean Implementations Fail (And How to Build One That Sticks)

Sarah stared at her computer screen, frustrated. Six months ago, the growing regional contractor she worked for had launched a

By Andy Fulton When you walk into a meeting, or another large gathering of people where you don’t know many

By Andy Fulton The triangle below shows the separate but interdependent nature of a CM-at-Risk (CMAR) contract (commercial terms) with

How are your efforts to continuously improve going? Did something like: “Continuous Improvement? Who has time for that? Who wants

??The secret out is out!!?? Ok, it’s not really a secret, but not many people recognize that the #collaboration they’re trying to

HABIT: How a simple VISUAL CHECKLIST promotes lean behaviors At a follow-up with one of our Last Planner® teams recently,

(Ballard and Tommelein: Current Process Benchmark for the Last Planner System, Lean Construction Journal 2016 pp 57-89) What do the

5S is a system for organizing where your work is done, whether that is on a construction site, in an