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Really interesting question! Thank you for asking! That being said, is productivity really not growing in the construction industry? Also what sources do you ha
by rijoja 7y ago
Really interesting question! Thank you for asking! That being said, is productivity really not growing in the construction industry? Also what sources do you have on low utilization of software? I suppose computer science have a very high saturation of competence on task management systems. Still keeping track of materials and so forth must be digitized since a long time along with the blueprints for the buildings and so forth?
With computer usage being so widespread isn't it quite unlikely that at no point someone would have interest in computers and any particular industry that tried to combine their knowledge from both fields.
So in short, is there really any low hanging fruit left? Also could you elaborate on why you say that the construction industry is not using software efficiently.
- Pandabob 7y agoI've done some software projects in the construction industry, and the consensus I've gathered speaking with people working there is that the productivity growth in general has been abysmal in the industry. Granted, the issues there seem to be very complex and you probably won't solve anything with just more software. You're right though that the use of software in the construction industry is probably as high as it is in any other industry, but anecdotally at least the way information (like what tasks to do and when) spreads in a construction site is severely lacking. Also, I don't know how reliable this is, but at least McKinsey has written quite extensively about the productivity slump in construction: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/capital-projects-and-infrastructure/our-insights/reinventing-construction-through-a-productivity-revolutionconstruction https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/capital-projects-and-inf... idustry
- rijoja 7y agoAha I do believe the task management situation. I feel that we programmers have been drilled with this like crazy. I doubt that the average builder have a concept of project management the way a programmer does. I got a 404 on that page. Is the productivity decreasing or just stalling? I guess that since we're dealing with a industry that's thousands of years old it ought to be pretty close to optimal efficiency but perhaps there'd be some things to improve. Are there standardizations between the systems. Like for example almost everybody in software development have used Jira* at some point?
- Pandabob 7y agoTinyURL'd the link: https://tinyurl.com/ycp2cv5s https://tinyurl.com/ycp2cv5s