JUNE 2023CONSTRUCTIONBUSINESSREVIEW.COM9(QA) to ensure a better change. Recently, we have included QA/QC approach early in the process, even at the estimating stage for projects.As a result of this change in the process, we can help the execution and operations team focus on the areas of importance that make big dividends at the end of the project. For instance, in a recent project for a chemical plant, we took this QA/QC process and thinking to a great extent. The client could obtain the desired outcomes with half of the commissioning team and deployed rest for other tasks. This was the project in my entire career where I had a zero-punch list. It was the result of the `project summit concept' that I created in collaboration with a group of executives about how to approach a project in the construction industry and build an industrial facility. We deployed this collaborative innovation and continuous improvement process in the gas-air separation unit for the chemical plant and achieved a zero-punch list. In essence, we have to establish the basis for change and ensure the process is convenient for people, especially in today's world when there is a limited supply of material and labor. Where do you see the construction industry heading in the next two to three years?The future for construction looks more like an engineered solution. I believe the engineering and construction sector are working closely to create and share intellectual knowledge that needs to transfer from the owner's vision to the engineer's design to the actual execution of the project while considering an engineered solution such as prefabrication. The constant learning and improvement will allow our industry to get better. We need to go methodically through each component, ensuring that everybody is on the same page. Then we must obtain feedback and share it with all the people that participated along the way. If the feedback doesn't ever come back, then there is a chance that we may have missed the continuous improvement process completely. What would be a piece of advice to your fellow peers in the industry?Our business is based on relationships and people. So, we have to work collaboratively. Try to work together rather than working as a bunch of individuals. If we want to see the industry improve, we have to do it through collaboration and innovation. To ensure safety in construction we need to embrace change together as it can only be achieved with collaborative efforts and not individually.If we want to see the industry improve, we have to do it through collaboration and innovation
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