An Investigation into the Construction Performance of High-Rise Commercial Office Buildings based on Productivity and Resource Consumption

Abstract

This paper considers recent findings on the comparative performance of high-rise commercial office building construction worldwide. The research comprised a survey of n real projects across twelve countries. The proposed hypothesis that increased unit costs, which reflect more complexity or higher quality, translate into decreased productivity rates was not proven to be a strong relationship. A number of other relationships were found to demonstrate strong correlations. The paper concludes by establishing a performance index methodology that can be used to compare construction performance across projects.