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Jobsite Supervisor Objections to Digital
Our List of Jobsite Supervisor Objections to Digital The construction industry has struggled with a shortage of (documented) experienced labor for decades. Especially in the aftermath of the great recession of 2008-10. High experience jobsite supervisors are some of...
Why Jobsite Managers Resist Digital
From Pandemic Directives to Jobsite Management Safe Site Check In was founded to provide an easy and affordable solution to the pandemic and keep jobsites open. As technologists, we had to quickly learn about jobsite management. We quickly discovered it's a very hard...
A Digital Native Looks at the Construction Productivity Slump
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...
Why Construction Technology Adoption is Slow
Reasons for the Construction Productivity Decline To sum up our analysis, here are some potential causes of construction's productivity decline over the past fifty years, and why construction technology adoption has been so slow: Ever increasing number of stakeholders...
Competition and Construction Productivity
Competition in the Construction Industry I'm not an economist and don't play one on TV. But ever since I entered the construction tech market with Safe Site Check In, I've been struck by its contradictions. Construction is one of the easiest industries for...
A Smaller Construction Workforce, But Still Less Productivity
Where Did the Construction Workforce Go? The construction industry cannot hire enough workers, and has an historic workforce shortage. And Construction has had a workforce shortage for very long time. Academic research into the topic goes back to the 1990s. The most...
More Stakeholders, Less Construction Productivity
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...
Is Poor Construction Productivity an Investment Opportunity?
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...
Which Investments in Construction Industry Will Raise Productivity
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...
My Construction Productivity Problem List
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...