Month: January 2020

Are You Really Measuring Productivity The Right Way On Your Jobsite?

With today’s labor shortage, smart contractors understand that time is, quite literally, money.   By this, I mean that understanding how their field labor team is allocating their time literally can mean the difference between a project being a  “winner” or a “loser”.   The most profitable contractors have a deep understanding of the productivity of their team.  They…
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Industrialization Of Construction® And The Labor Shortage…

While  productivity in the manufacturing industry has improved by 400% over the last century, the construction industry’s productivity has, in even the best case, stayed flat.  To achieve comparable results to those seen in manufacturing, the construction industry must also make the leap to “Industrialization”.  The first step in this process is defining the work…
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Why is Prefabrication So Important?

As subcontractors, we tend to be forced to take on the heaviest risk on each  and every project.  We are at the mercy of the GC and other trades in order to complete our work.  This Industrialization of Construction® that is happening is also causing other shockwaves throughout the industry.  Things like the labor shortage,…
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