Touchplan Blog

by Brewton Couch | February 19, 2016

Here are some resources to help with understanding Lean Construction and the Last Planner® System.

by Touchplan | February 18, 2016

An effective facilitator can be the difference between a productive planning session and a frustrating waste of time. Your job, as facilitator, is to move along the collaboration without taking over and running the meeting. You should facilitate an effective conversation and not dominate the discussion. If you manage the meeting successfully you will keep […]

by Touchplan | February 17, 2016

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently released their semi­annual Consensus Construction Forecast. This compilation of the nation’s top seven construction forecasters is predicting 8% growth in spending for 2016, as well as an additional 7% growth for 2017. The 2016 numbers point to a 10% increase on the commercial/industrial side and 7% for institutional […]

by Touchplan | February 16, 2016

Take a minute today and head on over to Capterra Construction Management blog. “The Ultimate Guide to Project Management Methodologies for Construction” features our very own Michael Sullivan.

by Touchplan | February 8, 2016

Last week I sat down with our in-house Lean construction expert Michael Sullivan. Michael has 24 years of contract and construction project management experience. This experience serves him well here at Touchplan when he leads our clients through the pull planning sessions and weekly progress meetings.

by Touchplan | February 3, 2016

Would you like to save time and money on your project? Are you interested in reducing the stress and headaches on your current and future projects? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then we have just the thing for you.

by Elizabeth Long | January 30, 2016

The newest release includes guide lines, project level constraints and a plan for an early finish.

by Touchplan | January 25, 2016

Ok. When it comes to planning, maybe the concept of sourcing ideas from a large online community (the definition of crowdsourcing) is a bit extreme. That being said, if your project team isn’t actively part of your planning process, you are missing out on some huge benefits.

by Touchplan | January 20, 2016

Consistently finish ahead of schedule and under budget with less stress and fewer problems. Imagine finishing your project weeks, if not months, ahead of schedule, at costs well below budget, with owners and project teams that are elated at just how well everything falls into place. Now imagine doing this consistently while being less stressed, […]

by Touchplan | January 5, 2016

Welcome to Touchplan’s new blog. If you’ve been to our site before you will have noticed that we have been making some changes over the last few months. Stylistically we’ve smoothed out some wrinkles and now we want to show off our new look. We’ve created this space to share construction news, and give you […]

by Touchplan | October 30, 2015

Over the past year we have been working with Lean construction teams using Touchplan to facilitate their projects using the Last Planner System®. (Check some of them out here.) After working on these projects we wanted to give our users a better example of how Touchplan works on a ‘real’ project. So we have added […]

by Michael Carr | October 1, 2015

The book does a great job explaining each of these concepts and provides concrete examples of how they all tie together.