Construction Magazine April 2017 | Page 45

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“ We do more collaborative pull planning and identify a milestone and we make sure everyone is making a promise to be done with the work on a particular day . It becomes a real group effort instead of lecturing to people , everyone has some input which means that they take ownership too .”
In order to ensure that the teams are well versed in the most recent methods , Turner Construction deploys a mixture of different methods while training its workforce . Wildt explains : “ There ’ s the formalized classroom training ; we have a one week program called Advanced Lean . It really gets you indoctrinated and thinking about what you can do and how you can improve the world around you . There ’ s also more traditional ‘ on the job ’ training .”
Wildt and his teams have also benefited from introducing technological solutions into the project . “ Everything is on iPads now , we ’ re using Blue Beam pretty heavily ,” he explains . “ Everyone has access to the latest structural drawing on their iPad - people can check the drawing and go out in the field and use their iPad to have the drawings right in front of them when they ’ re building .”
He concludes : “ You have to put yourself in the mind-set of their operations – you don ’ t want that to be affected . You need to look at what you ’ re doing under the guise of putting yourself in the owner ’ s shoes . How are things going to react to what I ’ m proposing ? How am I as an owner reacting ? How am I doing my work ?”
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