Helping capital project Owners, Builders, and Designers develop projects that serve their communities rapidly and within budget.
Support for Project Owners: Strategic planning, team selection, workflow design, collaboration systems training and coaching, integrated delivery guidance, target value design and delivery coaching, and performance standards development; resulting in informed Owner leadership of project design direction and construction delivery on an aggressive timetable that delivers value to the people who occupy and maintain their buildings.
Support for Construction Managers and General Contractors: Performance standards development, strategic workflow planning, trade collaboration training and coaching, supply chain management, information process mapping and continuous improvement guidance, and visual management; resulting in time reductions often exceeding 25% while removing complexity from the daily management of field operations.
Support for Architects and Consulting Engineers: Performance standards development, set-based and target value design training and coaching, strategic workflow planning, collaborative problem-solving and decisionmaking guidance; resulting in increased visibility of available design options, ability to better support Owner decisionmaking, elimination of rework due to overbudget construction costs, and higher quality construction documents and models.
The RisingTerrain approach to supporting capital project teams and leaders has as its foundation lean design and lean construction principles and practices, enhanced by the application of project performance standards developed and refined in work with clients. When working with RisingTerrain you are benefiting from the experience and skills practiced by project professionals from dozens of project teams.
RisingTerrain Clients and Affiliations
“If you are seeking someone to drive meaningful change, achieve success, and cultivate a high-performance team that directly impacts business margins while leaving a lasting imprint on the individuals involved, Tom Richert with RisingTerrain is the individual you need. Reach out to him; you won’t just be getting a professional partner, but a transformative force committed to both organizational success and the well-being of its people.”
“I’ve had the pleasure to work with Tom Richert from RisingTerrain since meeting him in 2015 while working on the Lakewood Family Health Center building project. As a principal of an architectural firm, I had the opportunity to interact with many team coaches and commend Tom in his outstanding approach. The Lakewood team benefited from his interactions throughout the project duration. Tom has mentored me, my organization, and project teams by establishing a culture committed to continuous process improvement. It is rare when you can work with a coach as talented as Tom. He intentionally engages with project teams, listens, respects others and has a positive presence in any situation. He would be an asset to any team and has earned my heartfelt recommendation.”
“When PC Construction began our Lean journey one of our first steps was to find a Lean coach. Tom Richert quickly became our primary coach. Tom did an extraordinary job working with our executive management, bringing a deeper level of understanding of Lean principles, and helping us develop our Lean strategy. Since then, Tom has provided coaching services to implement the Last Planner System on several projects. One project became a shining example of how Lean and the Last Planner System can improve project outcomes and create a truly collaborative, lower stress, team environment. The project manager and superintendent from that project became PC’s first internal Lean coaches. Tom helped take PC Construction from ground zero with Lean to standing on our own two feet as we continue our Lean journey. I highly recommend him.”
“The methods that the RisingTerrain team brought to our Mentor Hospital Leadership team were great. It was an effective and challenging way for us to think outside of the box, really open up and be honest with one another and to build strong relationships at the leadership levels. This was then carried onto the rest of the project team making for a great working relationship throughout the project.”
