This week, the Productivity Commission released its much-awaited report into productivity growth in Australia's housing construction sector. It wasn't a glowing appraisal. The commission found ...

As artificial intelligence continues to shake up the building industry, choosing how to build versus how to buy solutions is ...

The global construction industry is undergoing a significant digital transformation, but technology alone will not solve the longstanding productivity challenges that continue to hamper project ...

We document a Kuznets curve for construction productivity in 20th-century America. Homes built per construction worker remained stagnant between 1900 and 1940, boomed after World War II, and then ...

We've talked about the productivity problem in construction for years, but what about the impact it has on the ground? Increasingly more craftspeople are leaving the industry, but where are they going ...

There are worse economic trends than slowing productivity. How about declining productivity for one? That’s the nasty trick pulled by the US construction sector. It’s been running in reverse for a ...

Despite the many industrial advancements that have happened over the last half century, construction productivity has actually fallen. A recent report by the New York Times correctly pointed out that ...

Construction is a labor-intensive business. Despite tremendous advances in design, coordination, and management technologies, the physical installation of work in the field remains reliant on people.

Those of us in the construction industry, whether we want to admit it or not, are faced with an unpleasant truth: we haven’t increased our productivity in more than 50 years. According to a research ...

A deficit in project data on construction sites is costing businesses $177 billion annually. Compared to other sectors, civil construction has lagged behind in tech adoption and productivity for ...