David Aucoin, Senior Associate and leader of our West Hartford office, recently attended the three-day Industrialized Wood-Based Construction Conference 2019 (IWBCC) in Boston, Massachusetts. Below are his thoughts and takeaways: I started my conference sessions on Tuesday, November 5th with the morning keynote, John Burns, Founder & CEO of John Burns Real Estate Consulting, LLC […]
PES Senior Associate and Senior Project Manager, Chad Boyea, PE, recently attended the Fall 2019 ACI Concrete Convention and Expo in Cincinnati, the birthplace of Steven Spielberg; home of the biggest Oktoberfest in the country; and home to America’s oldest baseball team. Dubbed “A River of Knowledge”, the Convention boasted more than 80 sponsors, over […]
Lean, Kaizen, Kanban, Pull Planning, Waste, Six Sigma, Poka-Yoke…these are terms from the manufacturing world, aren’t they? We aren’t Toyota, so why do we care about that stuff? Although the principles of Lean date back to early car manufacturing days, or some argue even before that, these principles can be applied to any business and […]
