Organizing a project with productivity improvement as a goal will be studied. Students will learn how to calculate and measure worker productivity. During this semester, we will challenge the work process, learn about personnel management, and practice work improvement analysis. Understanding worker's abilities and the impact of environmental factors will be studied. We will study various models and methods for improving productivity and we will practice applying those methods to construction problems. We will complete the course with a discussion of implementing and monitoring the productivity program.

Learning objectives:
By the end of this class you should:

-Know how to make productivity calculations.
-Be able to identify ways to increase productivity.
-Be able to calculate the relationship between increases in productivity and overall project time, cost and profits.
-Learn how to increase productivity by using labor and equipment efficiently.
-Understand the general relationship among project estimating, productivity planning, measurement, project planning, scheduling and project control.
-Be able to analyze, and contribute to, a project estimate.
-Know the procedures for planning a productive jobsite layout.
-Understand how to reduce nonproductive time.
-Know how to challenge a work method to find a quicker more cost-effective method for doing the work.
-Be able to make unit cost calculations and productivity calculations.
-Be able to differentiate between normal, achievable, and ideal work standards.
-Be able to encourage productivity through factors that positively influence a worker.
-Be able to use alternative leadership styles used by effective supervisors.
-Understand group behavior practices that influence productivity.
-Be able to use record keeping systems to monitor labor productivity and job costs.
-Understand data collection procedures required to compile accurate records.
-Understand procedures for utilizing the queuing model, the time study model, and the method productivity delay model.
-Understand the physical limits of an average worker and what a worker physically cannot do under various working conditions.
-Learn how factors such as overtime, the learning curve, boredom, and fatigue affect labor productivity.

Text book not included.

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