Primary Author: Tong Zhao, PE PSP
Co-author(s): J. Mark Dungan
Audience Focus: Basic
Application Type: Experience-Based
Venue: 2012 AACE International Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, USA
Abstract: The measured mile/baseline method has been widely accepted to quantify labor productivity loss, but it has not been successfully used in engineering productivity because of the challenges in engineering productivity measurement and the determination of productivity benchmark. This paper presents a series of procedures based on the measured mile/baseline method to quantify engineering productivity loss from a project specific perspective. A case study on the piping discipline in a large scale process plant project is used to illustrate the calculation. The paper also includes a proposed approach, the two mile method, to quantify engineering productivity loss using data for similar work, but different complexity.
Co-author(s): J. Mark Dungan
Audience Focus: Basic
Application Type: Experience-Based
Venue: 2012 AACE International Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, USA
Abstract: The measured mile/baseline method has been widely accepted to quantify labor productivity loss, but it has not been successfully used in engineering productivity because of the challenges in engineering productivity measurement and the determination of productivity benchmark. This paper presents a series of procedures based on the measured mile/baseline method to quantify engineering productivity loss from a project specific perspective. A case study on the piping discipline in a large scale process plant project is used to illustrate the calculation. The paper also includes a proposed approach, the two mile method, to quantify engineering productivity loss using data for similar work, but different complexity.