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The 8 wastes of lean construction

Fieldwire

2) Inventory In construction, inventory waste occurs when overproduction results in excess material. This includes material being stored on-site or at the fabrication yard, work in progress, and unused tools or parts. Optimize your inventory to reduce this type of waste.

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Steel and aluminum tariffs raise more questions than answers for domestic suppliers

BD+C

Over the past 90 days, the price of steel that Dallas-based DFW Grating buys from domestic mills to fabricate bar and plate grating has nearly doubled. Scott Netherton, DFW Grating’s Vice President of Business Development, added that steel distributors are scaling back their inventories unless they are sure they have a buyer.

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Talent and Tech: The Keys to Unlocking Prefabrication Success 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Allied BIM Allied BIM enables firms to assemble, spool, and fabricate remotely, saving teams time, money, and reducing material waste. SiteSense Teams can track materials, inventory, tools, assets, and equipment with SiteSense.

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Vaughan Buckley on Restarting a Former Katerra Factory

Pro Builder

For example, if we’re unable to fabricate countertops in a way that’s efficient and effective for us, then we should be buying countertops [from another source] instead of fabricating them ourselves. So right now I've been able to do that because we're still going through existing inventory.

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Construction Cost Estimating Blog: TRAKware provides end to end.

Construction Cost Estimating

TRAKware can resolve particular issues and generate an incorporated, powerful, consistent and time-tested solution scalable to any size custom metal fabricator. TRAKware plays a proactive role for midstream corrections when necessary for fabricators. Inventory management. Warehouse/inventory/material management.

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How Pre Engineered Building Is Better Than Conventional Building | Advantages & Disadvantages of Pre Engineered Buildings | Use of Pre Structure

CivilJungle

PEB buildings are the steel structures which are fabricated at the factory to the required size and dimensions. Pre-engineered steel buildings are constructed using Steel built-up sections that are designed and fabricated in the factory and assembled at the site by using various bolted connections. Usually PEBs are steel structures.

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Guide to Supply Chain Management in Construction 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Intelliwave Technologies’ SiteSense ® construction software solution streamlines how users identify and track materials, inventory, and equipment. This company offers BIM services and fabrication software to help firms design and assemble models in a way that saves time, labor costs, and material waste. Tech to try .