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June 17, 2021
Productivity in construction has been a hot topic since long before the adoption of technology. As a construction professional, or someone familiar with the field, you’ve probably heard a great deal about productivity, especially on finding ways to improve it. Unfortunately, up until recently, the ability for contractors and supervisors to measure, let alone improve their field team’s productivity, has remained relatively stagnant.
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Oftentimes contractors are in a constant struggle with having to deal with labour shortages and at the same time ensuring that their supervisors find ways to get the most productivity out of their field teams. Unfortunately, prioritizing the improvement of productivity gets diluted since they also have to consider safety, budget tracking, procurement, and other daily tasks that eat up valuable time.
If you think that sounds like a lot of work, you’re right. Correctly managing a field team of any size requires a lot of overhead. Toolbox meetings, safety discussions, equipment inspections, employee scheduling, planning work-flows, managing time cards, RFI’s, document management, as-builts, material management, time & material tracking, progress reporting, and labour forecasting, all just represent a portion of the responsibilities that a supervisor must oversee to ensure the project runs smoothly.
While it is clear that the construction industry has suffered in the past two decades when it comes to productivity, we are fortunate that the industry has now started to shift to a more positive outlook.
Over the past few years, I’ve been able to witness firsthand improved productivity in construction. This change into a new era has predominantly been driven by innovative companies who have clear digital strategies in transforming outdated construction processes into streamlined digital products. Integrated field management software helps construction companies deal with operational challenges, even the new ones that arose from the pandemic; ultimately improving the way they operate in all aspects.
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