Episode 9: Nate McBride
Nate McBride
Discusses
Baseline
Introducing a series we’re calling “Hard to Make.” This is a story Kevin’s been wanting to tell for decades, the culmination of a lifetime of experiences as a carpenter, woodworker, and general contractor. And so periodically, we’ll drop one of these short episodes into the feed.
Our first episode is a discussion with Nate McBride, KCB Director of Construction and has to do with the concept of “baseline,” as discussed in Jason Schroeder’s book, The Art of the Builder: Elevating Construction Superintendents. Nate had gifted this book to Kevin who after reading it thought, “Okay, I’m not crazy.” Kevin ended up reading parts of it aloud at an all-company meeting.
We revisited clips of this meeting, which covered concepts such as the importance of cleanliness, physical organization, and minimal inventory on a job site. We also discussed how to use baseline to check the pulse of a site. “If it’s not clean,” explains Kevin, “it’s in trouble.”
