the city kitchen

the photo below is off a kitchen that we did last year. It is in a a high rise condo building, which is very difficult to work in. There are restrictive work hours, a limited time to complete the project and very tight quarters during the job as well as getting in and out of the building. I love this photo because of the diamond pattern lattice, it brings a new texture to the room and adds interest. the ceilings are low and the room is small so we need to do embellishments like this.

Today's staff meeting was again very good. We talked about how we can improve what we do. most of it will come from better planning, in the form of the shop drawings. It is important to note that the shop drawings serve to purposes, and every job has two sets of shop drawings, one that is for the clients and one that serves us in house. I don't mean that in a bad way the clients view of the shops must illustrate in the best way what we are going to be delivering. the shops that serve us wouldn't mean anything to the client they would be to technical and to large to be useful to the client. So it is the latter version of the shops that we talked about improving today. unfortunately most of that work falls on me as I am chief engineer. We talked about putting more info on the shops like an installation schedule like day one day two day three and what items needed to be ready in that order. We talked about using the concept of pull work vs. push work and how we can identify those differences on the shops drawings. it was a fairly lengthy discussion on real things that we can do to improve our process and increase the value of our product. The team that we have right now is the best team that we have ever had, and in this harsh economic climate i think we are going to find opportunity and enter into what could be the golden age at KBWC.