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    Why Work Packaging? The Productivity Challenge

    April 24, 2015

    By

    Olfa Hamdi

     

     

    Productivity in the construction industry has been declining in the last four decades especially in comparison to non-farm industries productivity . A considerable number of researchers focused on finding the reasons for the construction industry low productivity. Possible reasons ranged from slow adoption of new technologies and practices to short term nature of contractual agreements (Eastman, 2008). Productivity  in  the  construction  industry  is  influenced  not  only  by  labour,  but  also  by  other  factors such  as  equipment, materials,  construction methods, and  site  management (Arditi and Mochtar, 1999).

    Despite the complexity of the issue and the considerable number of factors that are known to affect productivity, people in the industry and researchers agree that when projects are properly planned, utilizing manageable work  packages, and execution roadblocks planned early enough, productivity losses can be recovered for the benefit of the project.

    Nasra (1979), Arditi (1983 and 1993) conducted a survey of the top  400  U.S. construction contractors to identify the potential  areas of productivity improvement  in  the  US construction industry. The results  indicate that  cost  control, scheduling,  design  practices, labour training, and quality control are the functions that consistently over the years are perceived as having considerable room for  productivity improvement (arditi and Mochtar, 1999). Thus, work packaging, by affecting the schedule consistency and reliability, and by incorporating cost and quality control as essential features of the work planning has been identified a good candidate for productivity and predictability improvement. 

     

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