Jyrki Laurikainen: Scaling Up Lean Construction
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 [...]
Juha Salminen: Construction in the Flow
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 [...]
Pekka Petäjäniemi: Integration in Infrastructure Construction
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 [...]
Lauri Merikallio: How Finns Develop Lean Construction Together
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. [...]
Tiina Talvitie: From Projects to Production
Industrial processes and systemization can solve many of construction’s productivity challenges, as the Lehto Group Plc has demonstrated. Lehto’s mission is to be an innovative trailblazer in the construction industry. The company uses digitalization and prefabrication to improve productivity and [...]










