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Exploring project productivity

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Exploring project productivity

- [Jim] Hi, Jim Rogers here. Back again to bring you another segment in my weekly series on issues facing the construction industry. And in this episode, we'll pick up where we left off discussing productivity issues. Last week, we explored approaches to improve overall project productivity up in the design phase. And I talked about how effective some of those strategies can be, not only at reducing the time from concept to procurement. But in reducing the issues that can occur once construction begins. In this episode, I want to explore some of those problems that plague us on the project and affect that overall time from beginning of construction to handoff to the project owner. Actually, I listed many of those issues in a previous episode already. And those included things like delays caused by requests for information, delays caused by changes, and delays caused by the time we add into the schedule, either directly or indirectly as a buffer in between the individual trades or…

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