Construction Concepts offers the following services.  We believe that although classroom time and workshops are valuable, most learning occurs through experiences at the project level. 

Our Services Include:

Construction Operation Analysis & Engineering

1. •  Construction Operation Productivity Analysis
   

2. •  Potential Return on Investment (or Resources) Analysis
   

3. •  Workzone Documentation and Re-Engineering
   

4. •  Percent of Value Generation Analysis (for current and re-engineered operations)
   

5. •  Detailed planning for increased Return on Resources (or Return on Investment)
   

6. •  Increased understanding and procurement of operational and project profitability
   

7. •  Detailed workzone and process planning to achieve “Breakthrough” production rates
   

Construction Project Performance Improvement

1. • Long-term increase in project predictability
   

2. •  Increase in project level communication and performance
   

3. •  Increase in both operational and project performance
   

4. •  Proactive focus on high performing operations well before execution
   

5. •  Alignment of project teams around support for “Breakthrough” performance
   

6. •  Alignment of Pre-Construction Planning, Scheduling, Detailed Operational Planning and Execution processes
   

7. •  Increased understanding and alignment of breakthrough production principles
   

8. •  Creation of memorable positive experiences for project teams associated with performance improvement
   

Strategic Organizational Performance Improvement

1. •  Alignment of project goals with organizational mission and values
   

2. •  Communication and execution of organizational mission & values through daily project behaviors
   

3. •  Organizational Needs Assessment:  Communication, Planning & Scheduling, Predictability, Project Performance, Operational Performance.
   

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5. Construction Productivity Workshops and Institutes
   

  Topics include:

1. •  Identifying Productive, Necessary, and Non-Value Adding Activities
   

2. •  Basic Construction Process (Reactive) Analysis
   

3. •  Workzone Redesign for Breakthrough Performance
   

4. •  Understanding Return on Investment (or Return on Construction Resources) & Profitability
   

5. •  Effective Detailed Planning and Communication for Breakthrough Performance
   

6. •  Identifying a Project Value Stream & “As Late As Possible” (ALAP) Scheduling
   

7. •  Constructive Collaboration and Communication
   

8. •  Project Predictability and Lean Construction principles
   

Innovation & Expertise in

Construction Productivity Improvement

For nearly thirty years Construction Concepts has been recognized as one of the leading construction productivity improvement consulting companies in the country.  Early in our history our work in construction productivity improvement was featured as several cover articles in Engineering News Record (ENR) and the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) monthly magazine.

Our project experience includes construction productivity improvement on super projects such as upgrades to some of the largest refineries in the world, numerous nuclear, coal and hydroelectric power generating stations, many pulp and paper facility upgrades, heavy-highway projects from Virginia to Hawaii that include precast segmental girder bridges, major interstate repairs and bridge construction over major bodies of water, two Budweiser breweries and several major airport expansions and upgrades. 

While super projects are exciting and improvement “target-rich” environments, we have also spent years working on productivity improvement in water and wastewater treatment plants, commercial and residential site development projects, high rise office and residential projects and theme park projects for the Walt Disney company and Universal Studios.  We have worked on union, open shop, lump sum, cost-plus and construction management projects.  The most unique project we have worked on was the repair and upgrade to the fuel storage tank farm built into the mountains above the Pearl Harbor Navy base. 

In every case we have been successful in bringing meaningful construction productivity improvements to the work of our clients and the craftsmen that performed that work on their projects. 

From the start we have been blessed with a collection of owner and contractor clients that are some of the finest organizations in the world.  Owners like Exxon, Monsanto, Conoco Phillips, all the power companies that make up the Southern Company power group, Dow Chemical and Maraven and Logoven, both major Venezuelan oil companies have all been clients of ours.  Our contractor clients include global contractors such as Bechtel, Fluor Corp., Brown and Root and Foster Wheeler. We have also worked at increasing construction productivity and construction performance for many, many smaller and specialty contracting organizations.  We are very proud of the group of owners and clients we have had the opportunity to serve.  Each and every one of them trusted us to work on and in their projects and allowed us to learn from each productivity improvement engagement. 

Currently we are working with a select group of self-performing, marine, heavy-civil and infrastructure contractors as they pursue operational excellence and achieve breakthrough performance at the crew level. 

Construction Productivity Improvement at the Crew Level

For over 30 years Construction Concepts has had a single focus and it is to radically improve construction productivity at the crew level.  Whether working on a single operation, such as the forming and pouring of concrete caps on the Makai viaduct in Honolulu years ago to the launching of a six million dollar Tunnel Boring Machine today, our focus has never changed; improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the work performed by the craftsmen doing that work while steepening or eliminating the “learning curve”.

We believe very strongly that construction productivity at the work face is the single most important aspect of the service self-performing contractors perform for their clients.  We also believe that that work is impacted and constrained by actions and inactions by groups and individuals throughout the organization from the time the work is bid until it is finally finished. 

Even though our industry has had the benefit of incredible improvements in software, equipment and materials, construction productivity in our industry has been on a steady and gradual decline for years.  Some blame the work force.  Others blame engineers and architects.  We choose to simply go to the work face and start to determine how to make it better as fast as possible and then work to eliminate more and more of the constraints to increase construction productivity and make the work as effective and efficient as possible as time goes by.

From the beginning Construction Concepts has differentiated itself from other construction management consulting firms by developing a myopic focus on construction productivity improvement at the crew level. We consider the effectiveness and efficiency of construction work as the only meaningful measure of productivity and, ultimately, expect the significant improvement of productivity in construction work to reflect the impact of our efforts. 

We invite you to learn more about us through the information we have provided on this site about construction productivity improvement and project performance improvement, then call or email us to learn more.  Thank you for visiting our website.