construction productivity

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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