Those of us in the construction industry, whether we want to admit it or not, are faced with an unpleasant truth: we haven’t increased our productivity in more than 50 years. According to a research ...

As infrastructure investment grows, construction productivity lags. Digital tools and real-time collaboration help teams ...

For too long, the construction industry has remained a laggard in adopting and embracing new tools, processes, and best practices for enhancing productivity. The $800-billion sector only allocates ...

There are worse economic trends than slowing productivity. How about declining productivity for one? That’s the nasty trick pulled by the US construction sector. It’s been running in reverse for a ...

High inflation and labor shortages are a major challenge for many industries, and no more so than in the construction and engineering (C&E) sector, where productivity has historically always been low.

The process of designing and constructing a building is markedly different from that of manufacturing a product. But adapting lean production-management concepts from manufacturing for use in ...

Many of today's construction sites are powered by technologies that are helping contractors deliver projects on time and on budget—from surveying technology that pinpoints exact locations, connecting ...

Here at Bradley we frequently represent clients pursuing or opposing claims for lost productivity on construction jobs. The gist of those claims is that something happened which decreased productivity ...

We document a Kuznets curve for construction productivity in 20th-century America. Homes built per construction worker remained stagnant between 1900 and 1940, boomed after World War II, and then ...

Construction output per worker has declined since 1997 due to years of under-investment in machinery, technology and ...

Average productivity levels in the UK construction industry have remained consistently below the average, new data has shown. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Tuesday, all ...