This week marks the 19th LCI Congress, an annual conference with an overarching goal of transforming the Built Environment through Lean implementation. Lean Management is enabling our projects and our people to work more efficiently. It is empowering our people to lead change and to work collaboratively to make our work better and deliver higher quality projects, and it is teaching us to evaluate traditional ways of doing things and identify waste that can be eliminated from those processes. The result is cost-effective projects, reliable schedules and a team-oriented work environment. Learn more about Lean and our journey to operational excellence here: http://blog.usa.skanska.com/lean-construction-the-road-to-operational-excellence/
This weekend, we completed an incredible feat at our 2+U development project in downtown Seattle—an 11,000-cubic-yard concrete mat pour. That’s enough concrete to fill up 35 million coffee cups, roughly, 50 cups of coffee for every resident of Seattle! We successfully poured the project’s massive mat foundation during a 23-hour continuous operation using six concrete pumps, 1,100 concrete trucks and 140 craft workers. Upon completion, 2+U will offer 665,000 square feet of office space lifted up to 85 feet, revealing a 24,000 square-foot outdoor urban village that includes arts and entertainment spaces, restaurants and retail. Learn more about 2+U here. http://2andu.com/
This is what a successful demolition looks like! This weekend, our team conducted a controlled demolition to bring down the old Kosciusko Bridge for the State of New York through a process called energetic felling. On October 1, 2017, a series of 944 individually shaped small charges were detonated to sever select structural members of the bridge, allowing the 25,290 tons of steel that comprised the remaining structure to collapse on itself. This followed the successful lowering of the 2,400-ton main span of the former bridge in August. Prior to the demolition, the Skanska-led joint venture celebrated the opening of the first of two new bridges that will replace the former Kosciuszko Bridge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPkIPhw6tNQ&feature=youtu.be
From the U.S. to Sweden, read how our teams at Skanska are developing approaches to embracing a more flexible and inclusive work culture.
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Companies are shifting towards urban offices with amenities and cutting-edge efficient design to attract and retain millennial employees. Our Skanska USA Commercial Development President & CEO Rob Ward spoke with the New York Post on this. “We see tenants moving into newer product and getting more efficient — taking less space and accommodating the same or more people,” he said. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dkdZkyi
This week marks the 19th LCI Congress, an annual conference with an overarching goal of transforming the Built Environment through Lean implementation. Lean Management is enabling our projects and our people to work more efficiently. It is empowering our people to lead change and to work collaboratively to make our work better and deliver higher quality projects, and it is teaching us to evaluate traditional ways of doing things and identify waste that can be eliminated from those processes. The result is cost-effective projects, reliable schedules and a team-oriented work environment. Learn more about Lean and our journey to operational excellence here: https://lnkd.in/du5eDNA
