Research Action Plan Stage 1 includes a number of projects that evaluate the best measures of productivity at a sector, company, project and task level.
Key projects
| • | Case Studies of Successful Projects |
| • | Canterbury KPIs |
| • | Construction Productivity in Canterbury |
| • | Macro evidence base |
Key findings
Collectively, these projects found that measurement of New Zealand construction sector productivity can be improved.
| • | Official productivity indexes of labour, capital and multi-factor productivity should be used to measure progress towards the goal of increasing productivity by 20% by 2020. |
| • | The industry needs to focus on a number of more specific measures, including whole-of-life cost and greater use of innovation, prefabrication, standardisation, digital tools, counter-cycle orders and design-build. |
| • | Two BRANZ surveys that measure industry performance – the new home owners' satisfaction survey and the survey of home builders on time wasted and use of performance indicators – could be repeated at two-yearly intervals. |
| • | Performance management needs to focus on safety, quality, timeliness and cost. |
| • | Collection and use of raw data could be improved. |
| • | A manual for industry would help to clearly define common performance terms. |
| • | Greater encouragement needs to be given to staff tasked with maintaining performance measures. |
| • | There is little opportunity to compare data across the industry as it is collected in different ways. This indicates a need to develop a common set of measures. |
| • | An organisation that is independent from construction companies needs to maintain national data on non-official measures. |