Through clarification of and commitment to project team goals, Lean Construction provides the project client and architect with control of the project’s schedule, budget and quality. This is accomplished with studies, expert advice in construction means and methods and confirmation of the Lean Construction project team’s understanding of these goals with mockups, sample and investigations of existing product installations.

Lean Construction believes that identification of team goals to be one of pre-construction’s primary objectives. A draft schedule incorporating these goals with the anticipated construction activities and entitlement process displays logic relationships and anticipates potential team goal conflicts. The pre-construction schedule serves as the road map for design, development, and decisions pertaining to project scope, budget and procurement. Thus, the Lean Construction approach offers a controlled, effective use of pre-construction resources consistent with the progress required to acquire government approvals needed to complete the project on time and under budget.

General Construction Services
Lean Construction provides in-depth management and supervision of all of its projects, with hands-on involvement by the company’s principals and project supervisors from start to finish. In addition to general building, tenant improvement and seismic retrofit services, Lean Construction also provides added value to clients with its ability to self-perform structural and architectural concrete work, including forming, placing and finishing.

With general contracting, Lean Construction always operates as the contractor. A project is bid based on the expectations a client communicates to an architect. Lean Construction takes the drawings and specifications, involves our estimating staff as well as a large number of subcontractors and suppliers and produces the best cost and schedule for the project. All the numbers are based on the plans that are provided. If there are points of disagreement as the project moves ahead due to changes or different interpretations of the plan, Lean Construction works with the client and the architect to resolve them. General contracting has a potentially adversarial side, which is avoided with newer style delivery systems.

Lean Construction’s process encompasses an information system for the project to coordinate the clients and architect’s goals. This comprehensive system includes numerous components ranging from scheduling, cost control, quality control, procurement, billing, project meetings, project commissioning, project close-out and warranty management.