This post is an excerpt from the paper, “Industrialization of the Construction Industry,” by Dr. Perry Daneshgari and Dr. Heather Moore of MCA Inc.
In today’s construction environment the value transferred to the customer for every dollar spent is only around 46 cents. More than 40% of the tradesmens’ time on a job site is spent on material handling; most of the work on a job site is performed by highly trained and paid skill tradesmen.
To achieve comparable results as have been seen in the manufacturing and other industries the construction industry has to take these same five steps:
1. Segregation of Work
The most important contribution of Fredrick Taylor’s work to industrialization of manufacturing was his ability to observe the skilled and unskilled tradesmen at work for a long period of time and being able to breakdown the conducted work. Once the work was broken-down it could then be managed by better management of time, location and contributing resources.
Once the work was visible and understood, it could be designed in the most optimal manner, and segregated amongst the resources available.
“Principles of Scientific Management” by Fredrick Taylor
