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Productivity and Technology in Construction

Journal of the Construction Division, 1979
Efforts are concentrated on the identification, quantification, and characterization of the technology change that has occurred in the highway sector of the U.S. construction industry over the past 50 yr. Gains in both labor and capital productivity and efficiency in the sector have been substantial, resulting in certain offsetting of factor price ...
Janet A. Koch, Fred Moavenzadeh
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Drivers for construction productivity

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 2019
Purpose The New Zealand construction sector is similar to many other countries with a few large companies and many small and micro enterprises. It seeks to achieve a 20 per cent increase in productivity by 2020 which requires a step change in how the sector operates and buy-in from key stakeholders.
Jeff Seadon, John E. Tookey
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Construction products

The chapter discusses the significance of construction products in relation to the Building Safety Act 2022, highlighting the lessons learned from the Grenfell Tower tragedy and the regulatory changes aimed at enhancing building safety.
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Gauging productivity in construction

Batiment International, Building Research and Practice, 1987
The history of productivity studies is reviewed here, with particular reference to attempts to improve on the conventional charting of single‐factor productivity, usually the labour element. Results of recent studies, mostly in Scandinavia and North America, are summarised and the paper concludes with an account of a study starting in Finland which ...
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Construction Productivity Improvement

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 1985
Construction productivity has been on the decline in the last decade. The results are presented on a survey of the Engineering News-Record 400 largest contractors to obtain their views on where productivity improvements would most help and to compare the trends with a similar survey carried out in 1979.
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CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS DIRECTIVE

Facilities, 1989
The Construction Products Directive of 21 December 1988 — on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the member states relating to construction products — provides for free trade in construction products throughout the European Economic Community. Implementation must be achieved by 27 June 1991.
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Productivity of Construction Professionals

Journal of Management in Engineering, 1985
Productivity of employees is a major concern in all organizations. The optimization of the production of the total organization can be achieved through the coordinated improvement of the performanc...
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The Construction and Production of Performance

2011
The term creation (new production) has been used for some time now in various contexts, in situations which, most of the time, allude to the fact that to create a new production is the hallmark of originality, of a unique position, of risks taken by those participating in the theatrical process.1 Theatre directing is usually associated with staging ...
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Productivity monitoring in building construction projects: a systematic review

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 2022
Wesam Salah Alaloul, Ahmad B Malkawi, Muhammad Ali Musarat   +2 more
exaly  

Construction productivity and production rates

2009
C Guntuk, E Koehn
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