Week 1, 2024: How we Structure our Construction Teams

How we set up our chain of command for construction, decision-making, and other nuggets

I want to add as much value as possible and split the blog into sections where I write about various things I do throughout the week. This ranges from things I’m learning to problems we’re solving within our company.

This edition has the following sections:

Learning: Books, Videos, etc

Adding Value: Problems we’re solving or we’ve solved

Exciting things: Tweets, podcasts, articles

I hope you enjoy it!

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Learning:

Wealth of Nations

I am currently reading this book, which is focused on economics. It is an old book and a bit tough to read, but its information is timeless.

In the book, Smith talks about how countries make money and why some are richer than others. He talks about how people working together and focusing on what they're best at can make a country wealthier. He also says that when people do what's best for themselves, it can help everyone in the country get better off.

Harvard CS50

I've been slowly working through this course over the last two months," said Onths. It's a great introduction to programming and how computers work. I wish I had seen it a few years ago when I started learning programming. Technology is the future, and the future is here. If you're an up-and-coming business owner, your company will need some tech to be competent. Knowing the basics would be good and will likely save you time and money in the long run. Learning how to program (I still need to improve as a coder) has allowed me to communicate better with our software developers working on our internal operating systems and the web products we are rolling out.

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Adding Value

How we set up our chain of command for the construction process

As we've grown from a team of 3 on the construction side to now a team of 20, it has become essential to split up jobs to get the work done and complete the home on time.

The way we did it when we only had a few projects was something like this: