Corie Nalder is currently a project engineer at Clayco. She is a recent graduate from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo with a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management, where she completed her senior project in the area of Project Production Management. She has worked mainly on industrial projects which range from a 3.4 million square foot fulfillment center to a 500,000 square foot manufacturing facility.
For her senior research project, she was drawn to the subject of PPM because almost any activity in construction can be analyzed as an operation or process. Corie analyzed a prefab process through a project production management lens by comparing the capacity utilization of a steel erection method to the traditional stick-built method.
After applying project production management to steel erection, she then was able to apply PPM to many facets of construction, including the sequencing of trades and researching other onsite prefabrication processes.