Dec 20, 2022
Jason introduces Kingman's formula and applies it to construction cycle times, making the point that a task's real duration is never just the ideal, 100%-productive estimate, it also has to account for natural variation and the fact that a crew's productivity ramps up over time rather than starting at full speed. Using...
Dec 20, 2022
Jason explains the concept of bottlenecks in construction, whether they show up as slow trades (like mechanical or specialty flooring), difficult zones (like high-bay formwork), or bottlenecks in information or material flow, and introduces a key production law: once one bottleneck is fixed, another will always emerge....
Dec 20, 2022
Jason introduces the concept of variation as a core production law: the more a project deviates from its established plan, the longer it will take. He walks through a real ripple-effect example, a concrete crew's plan changing mid-task, to show how one small decision can trigger 15 or more downstream disruptions, from...
Dec 18, 2022
Jason makes a forceful case for one of construction's most overlooked disciplines: finishing as you go instead of rushing through work and coming back to fix it later. He argues that "production" isn't about how fast you can move through a building, it's about how fast you can finish work completely so no one ever has...
Dec 18, 2022
Jason breaks down leveling as one of the most critical (and misunderstood) levers for creating true flow on a construction project. Rather than making zones equal in size, he argues zones should be equal in work density, so a smaller, more complex zone and a larger, simpler zone can still take the same amount of time to...