Productivity: Take the waste out of construction

Even though the construction world has embraced high-tech tools, it manages projects in the same way, still getting the same poor results. Less than 30 percent of projects come in on time, on budget and within specification. In construction, waste is rampant.
A study, “Owners Talk about Revolutionary Changes in Construction Contracting,” presented by the 2006 SMWIA/SMACNA Partners in Progress, reported that 57 percent of a jobsite crew’s time is waste that generally falls into seven areas:
• Defects. It includes doing the wrong installation, defects in fabrication and errors in punch lists. Not meeting the code is waste.
• Overproduction. This occurs when materials are fabricated, then stockpiled. Estimating and bidding jobs that are not won is waste; so is printing more blueprints or making too many copies of a report.

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