Building Information Modeling

• Building information modeling, according to the Modular website involves using interoperable technology applications to communicate electronic data among members of a group involved in a project. This method helps owners, suppliers, clients, contractors, subcontractors and supervisors communicate better. Tools such as computer-aided design and drafting, three- and four- dimensional modeling computer programs and cost-estimation tools speed up the decision making process and help to better manage work flow, resulting in timely project completions.
  
  

Prefabrication of Materials

• Prefabrication simply means the outsourcing of the manufacture of the materials for use on a job site. The necessary materials and tools necessary to execute the construction project undergo the needed assembly at another site. The factory that made the tools or materials ships them directly to the job site once manufacture is complete. Such outsourcing lowers project costs, leads to shorter completion times, and allows for more efficient use of personnel and production tools. Instead of the construction workers building construction tools and machinery, they can concentrate on finishing the specific project on which the company is working.
  
  

Demonstration Installation

• A demonstration installation is another tool for construction companies to use in limiting the innovation-related risks to owners, contractors and subcontractors. The goal is to test new products, such as machines aimed at simplifying production work -- to see if they are yet marketable to construction companies. Demonstration installations take place at job sites in the form of field testing or testing a new machine at a job site. They can also occur at seminars or conferences. Feedback is collected in order to improve the product so it can be ready for distribution to construction companies.
  
  

Performance Measurement

• Performance measurement evaluates the tools and personnel involved in a project throughout the job's life cycle. It helps construction companies judge how certain people and processes are leading, or have led to success or failure. It seeks to determine how to improve the outcome of the next project. It may mean focusing on workers the company may need to try to improve or to replace, because of slow production -- or it may be about replacing the temporary agency the company has used for the past decade to get more efficient workers.
  
  

Venue Stability

• Another method to make construction work easier entails keeping all workers the company manager has assigned to a given work site there until the project is complete. Veteran construction project manager Richard Troell advises against shuffling workers around between sites before finishing one project. It leads to reduced worker productivity due to lowered worker morale, Troell said.