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General productivity of labors by category in Civil-Construction sites ?

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Question added by Shafarubin Shamsu , Project Engineer , Salam Enterprises
Date Posted: 2016/10/29
ALI YAHIA ALI
by ALI YAHIA ALI , Freelance Interior designer and architect , Private office

 

Productivity in construction is often broadly defined as output per labor hour. Since labor constitutes a large part of the construction cost and the quantity of labor hours in performing a task in construction is more susceptible to the influence of management than are materials or capital, this productivity measure is often referred to as labor productivity. However, it is important to note that labor productivity is a measure of the overall effectiveness of an operating system in utilizing labor, equipment and capital to convert labor efforts into useful output, and is not a measure of the capabilities of labor alone. For example, by investing in a piece of new equipment to perform certain tasks in construction, output may be increased for the same number of labor hours, thus resulting in higher labor productivity.

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