Elevating Construction Superintendents

A Principle Based Leadership Guide for Assistant Supers and Superintendents in Construction (The Art of the Builder, Book 1)

By: Jason Schroeder

Narrated by: Katie Schroeder

Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

Are you ready to take your next step? To be a great superintendent, you need training. Without this, you may become defensive, learn to accept waste and low standards, or even espouse false concepts that will lead to failure. However, with proper fundamental training, learning from the best builders throughout history, and effectively using the modern concepts of lean, we can guide superintendents to have the best trained role in construction. Right now in our industry, project managers and project engineers are better trained, better paid, and are becoming leaders of the entire team. The positions of superintendents and project managers should be equal, but to be equal, we need to step up and take our place as the driving force of the project.

This book will help you to do that and bring respect back to field positions everywhere. Before writing Elevating Construction Superintendents: The Art of the Builder, I had never found a book available for the art and form of being a superintendent. Yes, there are books about lean; yes, there are books about construction management; and yes, there are books about the skills of a superintendent, but there are none that cover the art of the builder in construction and the back-to-basics fundamental attributes of a true leader in the field.

This is the first edition of the book we need and want for our wonderful builders in the field of construction. This book is filled with principles and actionable steps for assistant superintendents. I invite you to learn these, take massive action, and implement each step one-by-one. Please keep driving until everything on your project brings you joy. That is the measure of success. Expect more, step up, let's go!

©2020 Jason Schroeder (P)2020 Jason Schroeder

Do not Handicap your self as a construction manager by foregoing the reading of this book.

I’m one of those guys that spends a lot of time in details. I truly feel that it’s each person‘s obligation that walks the earth to be a better person than they were the day before, this in the Spirit of personal growth and good custodianship. This applies both personally and professionally is my persistent goal. This book is very well thought out and illustrated through text. I am on my third listening and each time I feel that I leave it a better manager and person then before. Thank you Jason and Katie for the gift. Most sincerely Ralph Pearson

JT Super of senior years

Jason. Thanks for the great book. I wish I found it a decade ago! Looking for to sharing it with my counter parts.

Basic fundamentals

To myself this was a review of the basic fundamentals of construction practices to push you to improve.

Well thought out and easy to listen

As I'm getting ready to make the life change of going from a self employed general contractor to being an assistant superintendent for a large commercial construction company, I wanted to take in everything I could to make me a competent member of a big and well established team.

I've now listened to this book twice and also purchased a physical copy so I can read it and absorb it even better. It is well written and easy to listen to, and delivers the principles of what it takes to be a great superintendent.

I think every current and future super needs to read this book a few times and put into practice the principles explained in Elevating Superintendents. It also provides other recommended reading, which I've also downloaded and listened to, before re-listening to this book.

Taking it to heart.

I really enjoyed listening to the narrator. The language spot on, the story’s were something I could relate to, and overall a great path to success.
On the negative side, I have a decent stereo system I my truck and driving to and from work is when I enjoy audibles but That Netflix gong has got to go !!

This is a Gift To Construction

There is so much valuable content in this book that it left me wanting to know more. I would love to see small spin-offs diving deeper into topics like logistics planning, last planner, etc.

embodiment of the superintendent

love the outline nature of the book. systematic, practical, easy to understand format and expectations. well done

Do it right, do it once and strive for excellence!

I’m about to begin my first job in construction as a field engineer and I was extremely encouraged by this book! Jason does a great job of explaining what it takes to be a successful superintendent and shows practical ways to elevate excellence, leadership and overall health in the field! Definitely recommend reading!

Great Guide and Helpful for Organizing Thoughts

This book is extremely useful to help organize day to day priorities and responsibilities for a superintendent. Also it helps list a lot of good topics to research to learn proper scheduling methods and best practices, which my company (a large GC firm) seems to have trouble providing actual training or details on. The only thing that I think would be beneficial for the audiobook version is maybe a pdf giving lists of the books recommended, steps for meetings, types of schedules to implement, etc. to avoid having to take notes while listening to the book

Covers to much information.

To many rules to be remembered. seems like it would be hard to remember all of them.