Are There Too Many Cooks in the Construction Kitchen? Is poor productivity the result of too many stakeholders per project? The op-ed in the New York Times, “The Story Construction Tells About America’s Economy Is Disturbing” states that productivity in the...
For Construction Pros features Safe Site Check In's latest jobsite observation features. The latest release of the software provides construction jobsite project managers and workers with the ability to easily capture what's happening on the jobsite with notes and...
Construction Productivity Has Stagnated Earlier this month, an op-ed in the New York Times, “The Story Construction Tells About America’s Economy Is Disturbing” states that productivity in the construction industry began to decline in 1970. A construction worker in...
The February technology product news roundup in Construction Dive features Safe Site Check In's new Observations feature. The latest release of Safe Site Check In allows supervisors, workers, subcontractors and visitors to include notes, photos, videos, and...
Investments That Could Raise Productivity 2023-24 According to data from Cemex Ventures, investments in the construction tech ecosystem reached a record $4.5B in 2021, triple the amount invested in 2020. What will finally move the productivity needle from stagnant to...
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...
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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...
