Jason sits down with Hal Macomber for a deep, substantive conversation on Takt construction, the production laws behind it, and why most of the industry still doesn't understand what flow actually means. Hal shares the story of his master class at LCI Congress with George Hunt of Touchplan, the Cory Hackler twin towers project in La Jolla, the Doyle Wilson Builders half day Takt homes in Austin, and how Toyota's Camry line in Georgetown actually works. The episode lands on the three things other industries do that construction in North America has stopped doing: use flow as the principal improvement measure, design the production system around the production laws, and tap into the expertise of every worker in the field.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why Takt planning belongs on non repetitive work as much as it does on repetitive sequences

• The Cory Hackler twin towers lesson: one month later start, two and a half months earlier finish through flow

• How a five day Takt with Saturday as a square up day creates the integrity that lets Mondays start on time

• Why "stacking the trades" is just CPM cover for failing to design the production system

• The simple heuristic: start from what the smallest crew can do, then scale up from there

• How to measure flow: are wagons starting and finishing as planned, and are stops trending down

Takt isn't optional anymore. It's the path forward for an industry whose productivity has been declining since 1987.

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