If you've read Builder Magazine or Professional Builder Magazine lately, you've seen Scott Sedam's handiwork. He's written many articles on lean and green building.
Intrigued, I dropped him an email asking if he'd be interested in taking a look at my latest book, GREEN FRAMING - AN ADVANCED FRAMING HOW-TO GUIDE.
My timing was good, Scott just happened to be in need of an engineer to help with his Lean BuildingBlitz process. LeanBuilding Blitz is where Scott's team visits a builder for several days and thoroughly examines their operations, scouring for inefficiency. Special attention is given to suppliers and trades, an aspect unique to this process. Finding money-leaking inefficiency is never difficult.
Construction companies grow and morph by adapting to daily emergencies. You don’t fix things if they’re not broken, right? Only problems beget solutions. But those solutions rarely are the most efficient – they’re an answer to a screaming need, a finger in the leaking dike. Over the years all of these band-aid fixes rack up huge inefficiencies and costs. In good times, a company can get by. But when the going gets tough, like right now, only super-cash-rich or super-streamlined companies survive. And if you’re to excel, you’d better have your ducks in a row, a row straighter than your competetion’s.
Which is exactly what LeanBuilding Blitz is all about.
I’ll be working with a Kentucky builder this month and a Texas builder next and I can’t wait! Lean and green is a core value of mine and has been my entire professional life.
If you’d like to learn more about this please contact me or Scott Sedam.