- Author
- Thompson, B. E. | Chapman, R. E.
- Title
- Productivity in Residential Construction: An Annotated Bibliography. Final Report.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Report
- NBSIR 80-2150, February 1981,
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- residential buildings; construction; renovating; bibliographies; construction costs; economic analysis; housing studies; building codes; productivity; abstracts | rehabilitation
- Identifiers
- building rehabilitation
- Abstract
- This report presents a state-of-the-art review of the technical literature related to one or more of the factors affecting productivity in residential construction. Particular emphasis is placed on identifying potential sources of variation between the level of productivity in new housing construction versus that in housing renovation. Although this report focuses on the residential sector, emphasis is also placed on topics such as contruction management and cost control which perhaps more appropriately apply to the non-residential sector. The references have been categorized so that articles dealing with specific productivity and construction topics can be easily identified. The categories emphasized in this report are: general productivity/productivity measurement; construction productivity; residential rehabilitation/renovation; construction/housing costs; construction cost estimation and control; economics of construction; and building codes and regulations.