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....

Impacted Productivity - Five Elements of Making a Good Case
Contractors are continually faced with costly impacts to their labor productivity and schedule with many beyond their direct control. The best Project Managers know how to identify, communicate, and mitigate these impacts.
Time-on-Tools and Minimum Required Installation
Labor productivity IS NOT the biggest problem with field productivity. Under similar conditions the variation in how fast two crafts people actually “turn wrenches” is about 2X but there are far bigger problems to tackle. Focus on these three areas.
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.