The value of time and motion study is clear. The process enables the accurate definition of labor, material, and equipment requirements to perform a specific task.
What is time and motion study? The evaluation of work performance, analysis of the time spent in going through the different motions of a job or series of jobs. Time-and-motion studies were first instituted in offices and factories in the United States in the early 20th century. These studies came to be adopted on a wide scale as a means of improving the methods of work by subdividing the different operations of a job into measurable elements. Such analyses were, in turn, used as aids to standardization of work and in checking the efficiency of people and equipment and the mode of their combination.
Locally researched construction task data uses the knowledge of both time and motion study as well as research of labor, material, and labor requirements. When developed and kept current, locally research construction unit price book data is critical to enabling true cost visibility and cost management for any type of repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build activity. Conversely, used alternative cost estimation techniques such as national average cost data, historical cost, building or system modeling, and/or location or economic factor are not capable of providing reliable and verifiable cost estimates or other information such as scheduling and material requirements.
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