Stephenson, Judy; Kulakov, Alexandr; (2021) Is productivity in construction measured well in the UK? UCL, The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction: London, UK.

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How does the UK’s construction productivity compare on a sectoral basis? How does productivity performance and growth vary in the construction industry? Building construction accounts for between 6 and 10% of output in the UK economy in the long run (Broadberry et al, 2015). [...] Furthermore, the contribution of services - the fastest growing sector of the economy - to construction productivity, has not been evaluated, nor can be from the current methodology. [...] Figure 2 - Percentage of the labour force working in each sector of the economy, England and Wales, 1841 to 2011 Patterns of employment and the structure of the labour market are also a perennial idiosyncrasy of the construction industry. [...] This paper highlights the diversity in recorded output productivity in sectors on the industry and calls for the recording of productivity data by sector in the Stephenson, J. [...] It may be argued that contractors’ productivity is a reflection of how well the on-site tasks are performed, the productivity (or the actual add value) of the output produced by the contractors heavily depends on the input from engineering services.

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