Construction Productivity - Structural Steel
Construction Productivity - Structural Steel

Construction Productivity - Structural Steel

We previously looked at single family home construction, and noted that the number of hours required to construct 100 square feet of single family home has slightly increased over the past 50 years. (View Highlight)

and noted that the number of hours required to construct 100 square feet of single family home has slightly increased over the past 50 years. (View Highlight)

Assuming that “true” productivity is somewhere in the middle, it looks like modern steel erection is more productive on a per-worker basis than historic erection, though it’s hard to say by how much. (View Highlight)