Removing silos will make construction better Maarit Sääksi is head of the Performance Leap program at YIT, the biggest construction company in Finland. She admits that explaining her goals to others in the company is sometimes challenging: “It is kind [...]

The Finnish lean construction community has set the ball rolling. Now it’s time to scale up. “I’m proud of what our lean construction community has achieved so far,” says Jyrki Laurikainen, Chairman of LCI Finland. “Now, I want to challenge [...]

Flow production and takt time take renovations one step closer to industrial production. “I think that in 2017, we finally cracked it,” says Juha Salminen, Development Director at Consti. “Until then, we had just studied the theory of production flow [...]

Early integration has proven its value in large infrastructure projects but also in more traditional project deliveries. Finnish Transport Agency is an early adaptor of lean construction in Finland. Pekka Petäjäniemi, Director of Major Projects, recalls where he got the [...]

The Finnish construction industry is exceptional. Businesses, the government, and cities collaborate openly to learn and develop smarter and leaner ways of construction. The office of Lauri Merikallio, a Partner at Vison Oy, epitomizes this new way of doing construction. [...]