Astute builders are starting to learn that early integration is a necessary ingredient of a successful construction project. Matti Kruus, CEO of Indepro, a project management firm, has seen many construction sites. Not only as a project manager, but also [...]

Today, several big construction projects in Finland follow lean principles and use project alliances. We’ve come far very quickly thanks to trailblazers like Professor Harri Haapasalo. Harri Haapasalo is the Head of Industrial Engineering and Management at the University of [...]

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 [...]