Construction Productivity In The News and Economic Research I'm following up on my prior post about the New York Times article on Construction's productivity crisis. That article just scratched the surface of the issues of why unit output per cost has not improved in...
Pay attention when the New York Times covers construction. We're not an industry that they usually give attention to unless something is going terribly wrong. What Ails Construction Productivity... "We’re getting worse at construction" is a good attention grabber. The...
Communications that Drive Digital Transformation & Usage As we discussed before, construction executive management is generally risk and change averse, a slow and late adopter of technology, often for good reason. But once technologies have got their foot in the...
Manage construction jobsites with Safe Site Check In featuring observations for documenting progress
Uniting HQ and Jobsite Operations Is Essential In a time with an historic shortage of workers, Construction executives need behaviors to change in order to realize essential productivity benefits. The HQ and Field divide must be closed. A recent Trimble/Dodge report...
Get Started with Construction Management Innovation A program is an sequence of interrelated projects. You run a project business, so this digital innovation stuff should be like riding a bicycle, right? Maybe not, especially when your projects operate more like...
The "Faces of EHS" column in EHS Daily Advisor features Safe Site Check In customer Rod Courtney from Ampirical. Rod talks about creating a safety culture and the importance of using tools like Safe Site Check In to manage workers and subcontractors on jobsites....
We'll finish this series not with more theory, but practice. What follows is a real life case study, a how-to for using real time jobsite attendance data on a high risk, time critical tenant improvement project. Here's the setup: Our GC is a medium size firm in an...
Construction's Culture is Conservative & Risk Averse Construction is an industry constituting a bit more than 6.5% of USA GNP – over $1 trillion dollars. Yet it has at best modest profit margins in comparison to other industries. Its management culture is known...
Digital Jobsite Innovation Is Difficult for Field Operations We believe the biggest obstacle to digital innovation and adoption in Construction and other hard-hat / safety conscious industries is field operations. Headquarters, more likely than not, is already largely...
