Simple Math of Labor Savings

What would it be worth for your company to improve your field productivity?

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Field Productivity: The 12 Month Challenge for Basic Labor Savings.
  • If you are a specialty contractor directly responsible for field labor?
  • If you are a general contractor managing dozens of specialty contractors?  
  • If you are a project owner?  

There is an incredible amount of low-hanging fruit to be picked when it comes to improving labor productivity before you even start to get into improvements from:

Those are major enhancers to field productivity but just imagine the savings you can achieve from improving:  


Improving Field Productivity Workshop - Revamped for 2018


Simple Math of Labor Savings
Field labor is the often the biggest variable on a construction project - making it the biggest risk and opportunity....

Simple Math of Labor Savings
Field labor is the often the biggest variable on a construction project - making it the biggest risk and opportunity....

Lean Principle - 3 Enemies of Lean
Profitable growth comes from operating within a target capacity and capability range - and continually increasing those ranges. Operating with consistent overload, consistent under capacity, or with consistently high variability is not sustainable.
Field Productivity - The Improvement Pyramid
An improvement of a few minutes per day to actual installation time compounded monthly is worth about $800K per year for a $25M contractor. What is it worth to you? Improvements to field productivity can be viewed as 4 major stages of a pyramid.
Planning - Integrating the 4 Key Responsibilities
Effective planning combined with regular feedback (at least weekly) combined with a structured look at how to improve each week is the key to integrating the four key responsibilities of a Foreman.