“LEAN, the Hottest Thing to Hit Construction in 50 Years”
Presented by Paulo Napolitano from Herrero Contractors
Is today’s economy forcing you to think about how you can:
But you can't decide which one is more important? And you’re afraid to implement one at the expense of another?What if I told you that you could have all three simultaneously?
May 5th’s presenter will be Paulo Napolitano from Herrero Contractors speaking on LEAN Construction practices. Paulo is the manager for their education department of which LEAN is the primary focus, method, and contributing factor to the enormous success Herrero is achieving.
Herrero builds a lean, green machine:
Contractors drive growth with carmaker’s principles
San Francisco Business Times - by Robin Xander
Mark and Rick Herrero have taken an old-school San Francisco business and created a model for the 21st century.That model has led to extraordinary growth for Herrero Contractors Inc.: 262.4 percent over the last three years, topping out at $155.59 million in 2007.The genesis of that growth began in 2004 with what CEO Mark Herrero described as a paradigm shift, bringing Toyota’s business practices to the construction industry. Herrero Contractors reorganized itself around the automotive giant’s three principles of reducing waste, green building and virtual techniques.Such practices allowed the company to do larger projects in its established markets, serving health-care clients such as Sutter and Kaiser and expanding into other markets such as hospitality. It is also working on a 22-story condominium complex on Folsom Street...
READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE AT:
http://san francisco.bizjournals.com/sanfranciscostories/ 2008/10/27/focus20.html
ALSO Visit this Link for another article about LEAN: http://www.modernsteel.com/Uploads/Issues/November_2008/
112008_30783_sutter_health_web.pdf
VISIT THE LEAN CONSTRUCTION WEBSITE: www.leanconstruction.org
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