This is the amount of time spent moving around the jobsite, mobilizing and cleaning up every day, studying the plans, laying out the work and other activities not directly related to actual installation.
This "non-installation" time is spread evenly over the course of the typical project. A few minutes here, a few minutes there, day-by-day, spread over the entire crew. More than half of this "non-installation" time is spent on plans, layout and material logistics.
o What if you could shift those activities to the front of the project, the "Pre-Planning" stage?
o Could those activities be done more efficiently as a dedicated task rather than in the field a few minutes before going to work?
o How much money could you save in efficiency if more of the work was pre-planned? Could you get your crew to work a few minutes earlier?
o Could you minimize trips from the work areas to the job office / gang box if things were better planned?
How much would the bottom-line on your projects change if you could improve labor productivity by 5%?
Construction & Problems
Constructing a project is challenging; it is very messy. There will always be problems. Problems are a fact and they need to be factored into your plans. Problems are often amplified on construction projects because of the separation of the design functions from the construction functions.
Architects, engineers and design consultants are often forced into "low-bid" contracts and the pressure to constantly deliver lower prices means cutting out on coordination between engineering disciplines, eliminating detail drawings, cutting down on elevations, minimizing plan-checking and peer reviews, etc.
All of the cost-cutting on the design side means that fewer and fewer conflicts are caught at the design stage and left for the contractors to figure out.
How you overcome problems will determine the success of your project.
The Cost of Problems
Problems are not usually recognized until you are right in the middle of them - at this point the problem will cost about 30% to fix - so if you are in the middle of a $1,000 piece of work and discover a problem it will cost about $1,300 before you are done.
In the worst case, when problems are discovered after the work is complete it will cost up to 80% to fix.
Our focus needs to be on spending whatever resources are necessary to identify and solve problems BEFORE we are in the middle of construction.
A 5,000 Man Hour Project
Pre-planning is just what it sounds like - it is about taking the time that is normally spent on planning throughout the project and shifting it to the beginning of the project.
When you look at what happens during the day for one person it just looks like a few minutes and it seems impossible to save any real time. Let's look at a 5,000 hour project and how the time is spent in the field.
This "non-installation" time is spread evenly over the course of the typical project. A few minutes here, a few minutes there, day-by-day, spread over the entire crew. More than half of this "non-installation" time is spent on plans, layout and material logistics.
o What if you could shift those activities to the front of the project, the "Pre-Planning" stage?
o Could those activities be done more efficiently as a dedicated task rather than in the field a few minutes before going to work?
o How much money could you save in efficiency if more of the work was pre-planned? Could you get your crew to work a few minutes earlier?
o Could you minimize trips from the work areas to the job office / gang box if things were better planned?
How much would the bottom-line on your projects change if you could improve labor productivity by 5%?
Construction & Problems
Constructing a project is challenging; it is very messy. There will always be problems. Problems are a fact and they need to be factored into your plans. Problems are often amplified on construction projects because of the separation of the design functions from the construction functions.
Architects, engineers and design consultants are often forced into "low-bid" contracts and the pressure to constantly deliver lower prices means cutting out on coordination between engineering disciplines, eliminating detail drawings, cutting down on elevations, minimizing plan-checking and peer reviews, etc.
All of the cost-cutting on the design side means that fewer and fewer conflicts are caught at the design stage and left for the contractors to figure out.
How you overcome problems will determine the success of your project.
The Cost of Problems
Problems are not usually recognized until you are right in the middle of them - at this point the problem will cost about 30% to fix - so if you are in the middle of a $1,000 piece of work and discover a problem it will cost about $1,300 before you are done.
In the worst case, when problems are discovered after the work is complete it will cost up to 80% to fix.
Our focus needs to be on spending whatever resources are necessary to identify and solve problems BEFORE we are in the middle of construction.
A 5,000 Man Hour Project
Pre-planning is just what it sounds like - it is about taking the time that is normally spent on planning throughout the project and shifting it to the beginning of the project.
When you look at what happens during the day for one person it just looks like a few minutes and it seems impossible to save any real time. Let's look at a 5,000 hour project and how the time is spent in the field.
