“Our experience with Elevate and Takt has been transformative. We currently build 4 overlapping projects- around 800 units at a time, and prior to our involvement with Kevin and Jason and the rest of the team we struggled endlessly with scheduling, delays, lack of transparency, chaos, overtime etc…
We tried MS Project schedules, milestones with trades on site coming up with the 3 week lookahead, none of it worked. Our schedules were ignored the minute we sent them out and the foremen would go decide on their own how things were going to happen (which certainly wasn’t optimal and did not lead to great cooperation).
The transparency and visibility of the system allowed the foremen on site to actually start talking about the schedule and remove roadblocks ahead of hitting them, which has allowed us to actually stay on schedule for the first time in 5 years. The biggest endorsement I can give is that once we transitioned to Takt on a 3 building, 240 unit site last August, we have not changed the occupancy date or move in dates on all three buildings, with the last building receiving occupancy this month, all three buildings finishing on the same schedule that was set last August.“