Jim Rogers CONSULTING

I hear quite a few people in the construction industry throwing around the term "Lean" or "Lean Construction" or "Lean Productivitiy", but I find that a good percentage of them really don't have a complete grasp on the concepts and the theory behind Lean Construction....

On LinkedIn Learning, we recently rolled out a new Vlog style of short courses. These short, stand alone, video episodes are meant to present you with some quick information, insights, or instructions. Think of them as micro learning courses. They were fun to film and...

Just walking to lunch...

No guard rails or barricades (other than the two being repurposed as a stand for the cable reel). No one around. No ventilation or ladder. Just an open manhole leading down to a vault. I did look down to make sure no one was at the bottom!

In many cases, the thing that’s really wrong with our “OSHA Record Keeping” is that we view it as “OSHA Record Keeping”; that is to say it gets thought of as a purely regulatory exercise that gets little other attention.

While there are many similarities between the rules that have existed for confined spaces in General Industry and the new rules published by OSHA for confined spaces in the Construction Industry, there are also some significant differences.

The last few years have seen an incredible leap into the utilization of digital drawings, and this now looks like it will represent a transformational change for the construction industry. The ability to forgo printed hard copy drawings altogether, in favor of digital...

One of the challenges with viewing construction drawings in digital format is the screen size. Fortunately, when you are at your desk its fairly easy to set up your workstation to take advantage of two monitors and spread things out a little. There are many ways that y...

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As technology continues to permeate and influence the construction industry, one of the trends that we see now on a recurring basis is the move from paper construction drawings (blueprints for those that have been around a while) to digital drawings. The tools to make...

Just announced this morning, LinkedIn Learning combines the best of Lynda.com and LinkedIn.com to bring you a new way to learn, anytime, at your pace, and right from your LinkedIn account. Choose from a library of over 9000 courses developed by industry experts. Linked...