January 10, 2005

USING PRODUCTIVE TIME TO CALCULATE LABOR INEFFICIENCIES

By Dr. H. Randolph Thomas, P.E.
Professor of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State

This article begin a series on quantifying labor inefficiencies by Dr. H. Randolph Thomas of Penn State University. Dr. Thomas is an expert in the field and has written on the subject for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Electrical Contracting Foundation (associated with NECA) and Aspen Publishing. The series focuses on acceptable standards of accuracy and starts with a discussion of the measurement of productive time vs. non-productive time to determine inefficiency. Other articles in the series include the use of industry average curves, measured mile and baseline calculation techniques.

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