A Critical Review of Factors Affecting Manpower and Equipment Productivity in Tall Building Construction Projects

Developing countries have seen an increase in construction of tall buildings in metropolitan cities due to space constraint. The construction of tall buildings in developing countries is undertaken as a combination of manpower and equipment to economize costs. This combination or interface of man...

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Main Authors:	Parthasarathy, Mudumbai Krishnaswamy, Murugasan, Rajiah, Murugesan, Kavitha
Format:	Article
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2017
Subjects:	TH1-9745 Building construction
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spelling	usm-414222018-08-20T03:10:26Z A Critical Review of Factors Affecting Manpower and Equipment Productivity in Tall Building Construction Projects Parthasarathy, Mudumbai Krishnaswamy Murugasan, Rajiah Murugesan, Kavitha TH1-9745 Building construction Developing countries have seen an increase in construction of tall buildings in metropolitan cities due to space constraint. The construction of tall buildings in developing countries is undertaken as a combination of manpower and equipment to economize costs. This combination or interface of manpower and equipment, particularly in the basic activities such as concreting, reinforcement, formwork, blockwork, and plastering affects productivity of both the resources. This research aims at studying the factors affecting productivity of manpower and equipment at the micro level for the basic activities of construction for tall building projects. The factors have been further grouped and combined as sections. Responses collected through questionnaire survey from 109 personnel associated with the construction of 72 tall buildings in different geographies of India have been analysed using theoretical tools like frequency index, Spearman's rank correlation coeffcient, and factor analysis. The factors have been prioritized in descending order of frequency indices. Based on analysis, it is found that factors in human and planning groups are more inﬂuential and affect manpower and equipment productivity signifcantly. Contract managers and cost engineers can use this study to make allowance while analysing productivity and estimating costs for tall buildings having combined usage of manpower and equipment. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.usm.my/41422/1/jcdc2017.22.s1.1.pdf http://web.usm.my/jcdc/vol22_s1_2017/jcdc2017.22.s1.1.pdf Parthasarathy, Mudumbai Krishnaswamy and Murugasan, Rajiah and Murugesan, Kavitha (2017) A Critical Review of Factors Affecting Manpower and Equipment Productivity in Tall Building Construction Projects. Journal of Construction in Developing Countries , 22 (1). pp. 1-18. ISSN 1823-6499 http://eprints.usm.my/41422/
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description	Developing countries have seen an increase in construction of tall buildings in metropolitan cities due to space constraint. The construction of tall buildings in developing countries is undertaken as a combination of manpower and equipment to economize costs. This combination or interface of manpower and equipment, particularly in the basic activities such as concreting, reinforcement, formwork, blockwork, and plastering affects productivity of both the resources. This research aims at studying the factors affecting productivity of manpower and equipment at the micro level for the basic activities of construction for tall building projects. The factors have been further grouped and combined as sections. Responses collected through questionnaire survey from 109 personnel associated with the construction of 72 tall buildings in different geographies of India have been analysed using theoretical tools like frequency index, Spearman's rank correlation coeffcient, and factor analysis. The factors have been prioritized in descending order of frequency indices. Based on analysis, it is found that factors in human and planning groups are more inﬂuential and affect manpower and equipment productivity signifcantly. Contract managers and cost engineers can use this study to make allowance while analysing productivity and estimating costs for tall buildings having combined usage of manpower and equipment.
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author	Parthasarathy, Mudumbai Krishnaswamy Murugasan, Rajiah Murugesan, Kavitha
author_facet	Parthasarathy, Mudumbai Krishnaswamy Murugasan, Rajiah Murugesan, Kavitha
author_sort	Parthasarathy, Mudumbai Krishnaswamy
title	A Critical Review of Factors Affecting Manpower and Equipment Productivity in Tall Building Construction Projects
title_short	A Critical Review of Factors Affecting Manpower and Equipment Productivity in Tall Building Construction Projects
title_full	A Critical Review of Factors Affecting Manpower and Equipment Productivity in Tall Building Construction Projects
title_fullStr	A Critical Review of Factors Affecting Manpower and Equipment Productivity in Tall Building Construction Projects
title_full_unstemmed	A Critical Review of Factors Affecting Manpower and Equipment Productivity in Tall Building Construction Projects
title_sort	critical review of factors affecting manpower and equipment productivity in tall building construction projects
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia
publishDate	2017
url	http://web.usm.my/jcdc/vol22_s1_2017/jcdc2017.22.s1.1.pdf http://web.usm.my/jcdc/vol22_s1_2017/jcdc2017.22.s1.1.pdf http://eprints.usm.my/41422/1/jcdc2017.22.s1.1.pdf
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A Critical Review of Factors Affecting Manpower and Equipment Productivity in Tall Building Construction Projects

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