A mid-rise office project was scheduled to pour a concrete slab over a foundation. The team assumed that last week’s inspection had covered all edges. When crews arrived, access to one corner was blocked by scaffolding erected prematurely. A small delay — one day — caused a chain reaction: multiple trade schedules collided, crane time was rescheduled, and the project lost nearly a week cumulatively. Sun Tzu understood the decisive power of timing. On the construction site, de

C onstruction projects are high-stakes, high-dollar, and high-risk. Yet so much still gets lost in miscommunication, missed milestones,...