"In today's homebuilding economywhere interest rates whiplash buyer demand, costs remain stubbornly high, and affordability pressures crush marginsone truth grows clearer by the month: something's got to give. That something may be the industry's muscle-memory tolerance for inefficiencyits broken handoffs, its clunky field coordination, its rampant rework. To win more buyers at price points they can stomach and finance, builders will need to bend the cost curve down. Squeezing subs, bidding materials, or cutting corners won't cut it."
"By cutting down on cycle time, Groves taught, a builder can produce its usual home cycles more quickly and create greater returns from a finite investment. A builder with an 18% gross margin and an 80-day cycle time would outperform a builder with a 24% gross margin and a 180-day cycle time by a ratio of 2-to-1. Groves advocated a shift from conventional critical path scheduling to critical chain project managementwhere time buffers are added to the system, not the tasks."
High interest rates, persistent costs, and affordability pressures force homebuilders to bend the cost curve without sacrificing quality. The Pipeline Workshop breaks a new home's lifecycle into 450 SKUs, 20,000 pieces, 700 BOM line items, and 25 trade crews, framing a typical 2,100-square-foot home as a time-critical relay. Shortening cycle time raises returns; an 18% gross margin with an 80-day cycle outperforms a 24% margin with a 180-day cycle by 2-to-1. Critical chain project management places system-level time buffers, making velocity a central KPI for resilience and profit; reducing mundane field errors lowers cascades of rework and delays.
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