About Construction Management

Developing Build-System Construction Management

Source - [1]

Build-System Construction Management is the idea that construction management should be grounded in externalized build logic, not in memory, heroics, or abstract schedules. Instead of managing from drawings and verbal experience, managers are formed by first building the actual modules, then deliberately extracting and encoding what happens in the physical work—sequence, dependencies, failure modes, tools, and checks—into executable artifacts (checklists, scopes, shopping lists, lookaheads). In this model, management capability is earned by proving one can convert tacit, hands-on knowledge into systems that others can run without the original expert present. The result is construction that scales without burnout, survives turnover, and becomes teachable and repeatable; the manager’s job is not to be the system, but to make the system explicit, transferable, and resilient.

In other words - construction managers emerge from our program. The above reflects our program curriculum:

Curriculum

Build-System Construction Management (B-SCM) is a hands-on formation curriculum that trains participants to manage construction by first building it. Instead of teaching management as paperwork or supervision, the curriculum begins with physical module construction and deconstruction inside a controlled learning environment, where participants acquire tacit build knowledge, sequencing intuition, and trade interactions directly. From this embodied experience, participants learn to deliberately extract build logic—dependencies, failure modes, quality checks, tooling, and time requirements—and externalize it into executable construction-management artifacts such as scopes, shopping lists, checklists, lookaheads, and takeover-ready documentation. The program develops situationally aware builders who can transform real work into systems that others can run, enabling construction to scale without heroics, reduce coordination failure, and preserve institutional knowledge beyond any single individual.

Build-System Construction Management Notes

• How to recruit - litmus test - Can they reliably manage the project outside their own head? Key is what tools they use to document. Source - [2]
• Minimum team size could be any size for managing
• Manager grows from doing the thing.
• any role is about externalization of tacit knowledge. Anybody that can't do that (executive or trainee) or if it's not built into the process, the process will fail. Learner has to be embedded in the process.
• '“Responsible for converting design intent and tacit build knowledge into executable construction-management artifacts”
• The Key Litmus Test in OSE context with RLF - A candidate is CM-capable only if they can: Take a physical module and turn it into a written, executable system that someone else can run.

Links

• Future Builders Enterprise Track