Construction’s Productivity Problem - Connected World
Construction projects generate mountains of information, from labor hours and production rates to schedules, costs, delays, and changes. Yet too often, that information remains fragmented or trapped inside individual projects. Construction companies measure what happened, file the reports, and then move on to the next job—without necessarily learning enough to make the next project better. Enter the new Cambridge Framework for Construction Productivity.
Developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge Laing O’Rourke Centre using data from more than 25 U.K. construction projects, the framework takes a practical approach to a problem the construction industry has wrestled with for decades: how do we consistently understand productivity while a project is still happening, rather than simply explaining it afterward? The industry may not have an answer.
The framework connects production rates, labor productivity, production flow, variability, and the factors affecting delivery. In other words, it is helping teams investigate why performance...
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