William Jackson Fite Jr. is an assistant project manager who employs lean construction principles to enhance project efficiency and value. The principles include understanding customer values, optimizing resource allocation, eliminating waste, ensuring smooth workflow, effective scheduling, and promoting continuous improvement. These techniques aim to complete construction projects on time and within budget by minimizing inefficiencies.

1. W I L L I A M J A C K S O N F I T E J R
Principles of Lean Construction

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3. William Jackson Fite Jr. is the assistant project manager at
Brasfield & Gorrie in Atlanta, Georgia. His responsibilities
include ensuring that construction projects are completed
within budget and on time. For this purpose, William
Jackson Fite Jr. uses the lean construction technique.

4. Lean construction aims to optimize value while keeping
waste and inefficiencies to the bare minimum. The
practice is a derivative of the lean manufacturing
technique.
The first lean construction principle is getting to know
the customer's values and using them as a basis for the
project. This identification with the customer's point of
view introduces the second principle, value stream.
This requires an assemblage of the best personnel,
materials, data, and equipment for the project based on
the underlying values.

5. The third principle is getting rid of waste and
inefficiencies such as defects, wait times, over-
inventory, overproduction, over-processing,
unmatched labor and expertise, and unnecessary
transport and motion. The fourth principle is
ensuring an uninterrupted and unimpeded
workflow process. This entails clear communication
among all parties in the project, which is also
necessary for the fifth principle, scheduling.

6. Continuous improvement is the final principle.
Finding ways to be better on the next project is the
goal of lean construction.