How to plan tomorrow's work before you leave site today
Use a fifteen-minute end-of-day routine to check that tomorrow's work has its materials, equipment, access and answers, so no crew starts the day waiting.
Project management fundamentals and daily planning
The habits that keep a construction project under control from the first week: knowing what the contract asks, who decides what, what tomorrow needs, and what the owner hears each week.
Five questions to answer at the start of every construction project
Answer five kickoff questions on scope, contract, schedule, budget and people before the first crew arrives, so the site team knows what the price assumed.
How to run a ten-minute morning huddle crews actually use
Run a daily huddle that covers today's plan, the hazards to watch and the blockers, gets the crew talking and still ends on time, in about ten minutes.
A one-page project execution plan for smaller contractors
Write a one-page execution plan that says how a job will be built, staffed, sequenced and reported, so the office and the site work from the same plan.
Reading the construction contract before the job starts
Find the contract clauses that change what the site team must do — scope, schedule, notices, changes, payment and warranty — and put them on one summary page.
Setting up a contact list and responsibility matrix that ends confusion
Build a contact list and a simple responsibility matrix so every decision on a construction job has one named owner and nobody waits on the wrong person.
Keeping the open-items list under control
Run an open-items list where every item has one owner and a due date, the weekly review stays short, and closed items stay closed because the evidence is kept.
The one-page weekly report to the owner
Write a one-page weekly report that tells the owner where the job stands: progress, the next two weeks, risks, decisions needed from them and changes.
Setting priorities when everything on site is urgent
Sort a morning's demands in a fixed order — people, then the critical path, then money — and delegate, schedule or decline the rest with a name and a time.
Site setup in the first week: what to have in place
Check that access, facilities, postings, storage and records are in place in a site's first week, and find out which local rules decide the details.
