The Project Production Institute’s technical conference showcased significant industry progress in adopting production management principles, with strong academic partnerships yielding high-quality research presentations from prior PPI award recipients. Educational pathways include Stanford’s intensive six-month Modern Construction Program focused on ...
Construction teams in fast-cycle cast-in-place concrete work currently lack access to real-time and automated raw production data, including start and end time, the number and location of labor and equipment as resources, limiting their ability to efficiently and effectively model and control production. Without such data, construction teams are unable to make re ...
Current construction management techniques center around the ‘iron triangle’ of scope/quality, schedule, and resource use, with the common understanding that only two of these three aspects can be optimized in a project. On the other hand, the Project Production Institute (PPI) advocates an Operations Science-based approach to managing projects using five levers ...
Boreal Energy Systems addresses North America’s exponential electricity demand growth through factory-built micromodular reactors that deliver 1-5 megawatts of clean power with dramatically compressed deployment timelines. The solution tackles critical infrastructure gaps where traditional nuclear plants require decade-plus delivery while data centers, tran ...
The construction industry faces a growing labor shortage, particularly in skilled trades, leading to increased costs and operational risks. Raise Robotics addresses this challenge with a modular robotic platform designed to automate high-risk, repetitive tasks on construction sites. By initially focusing on building envelope construction, the company demonstrated ...
Capital projects often suffer from significant cost overruns and schedule delays. These issues are frequently caused by poor early alignment, fragmented communication, and a lack of understanding of how production flows impact project performance, leading to high-stress environments and jeopardized profits. Therefore, this study showcases how a Hospital project i ...
Industrialized construction (IC) means many things to many people. It is a concept that has been rediscovered time and again. In recent years, interest in IC has been sparked anew thanks to the promise of increasingly affordable automation, readily available cloud computing, and AI driving innovation in our industry. While jumping on the bandwagon now may be more ...
This paper investigates how variability in the scope of construction work packages—particularly size-based differences in arrival and service times—affects project performance metrics like completion time, work-in-process (WIP), and cycle time (CT). Using discrete event simulation (DES), the study compares traditional M/M/1 queue behavior with more realistic prod ...
