- Author
- Construction Industry Institute
- Title
- Productivity Measurement: An Introduction.
- Coporate
- Construction Industry Institute, Austin, TX
- Report
- Publication 2-3, October 1990, 22 p.
- Keywords
- construction | performance evaluation
- Abstract
- The Construction Industry Institute (CII) was founded in 1983 to carry forward the recommendations of The Business Roundtable's Construction Industry Cost Effectiveness (CICE) Project. One of the first research efforts by CII addressed the productivity measurement recommendations in the CICE A-1 Report, "Measuring Productivity in Construcion". The A-1 Report identifies a steady decline in construction productivity and concludes that effective productivity measuring techniques are a prerequisite to reversing the trend. A CII task force was established to identify productivity measurement methods utilized in the construction industry, consider the potential for standardization, establish a basis for trending industry productivity over time, and develop a manual that would show how productivity measurement is performed.