From the course: Construction Industry: Productivity
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Exploring productivity at the workplace
From the course: Construction Industry: Productivity
Exploring productivity at the workplace
- Let's start to narrow our focus now, and look directly at what we call productivity at the workface. This is really just another way of saying the actual manpower productivity. We already talked a little bit about the time we lose when we add time in our schedule in between our trades. That's just dead time, nothing happens. But the clock's still ticking. Well, the reason that time gets added is that when the general contractor's producing a construction schedule, they're working to give their best guess at how long an activity will actually take. That should certainly be an educated guess, but sometimes even the best of plans run into problems. And problems on a construction site tend to translate to delays. Let's look at a typical scenario. When a trade contractor bids a job, they do their best to anticipate conditions and estimate the labor and the equipment demands. As a project progresses, though, sometimes…
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