Productivity rates of manpower

Hello Everybody,

I am new here in this platform and i need to ask some questions and i would appreciate if you answer my questions.

 

I have choosen my career as a planning engineer in building side. I have done BSc Civil Engineering and then Masters in Project management. I have only 2 months of experience.

 

I need the productvity rates of manpower in building construction because i have been asked many times in an interview how many manpower you would use in anonymous activity and i had no answer.

 

 

Thanks

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Rafael Davila 👤 Member for 22 years 3 months

The link is no longer available.

Instead please take a look at the folllowing link. There you will see a sample page showing crew composition and daily output.

Be reminded that crew production rate is a function of the crew composition.  Changing a single component usually will result in a change in production rate. Usually the change is not linear to a change in manpower even if only manpower resources are used, more so if production equipment are a component of your crew.

RS Means - How to use the Unit Price pages

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Muhammad Saqib 👤 Member for 7 years 7 months

Dear Rafael,

 

Thanks for your reply

but link is not opening. I think there is some kind of an error .

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Rafael Davila 👤 Member for 22 years 3 months

Consider using RS Means as a reference in the absence of company records.  It is critical you understand that the components work as as a group.  Increasing or decreasing individual team members within the crew most probably will invalidate average crewhours per unit of work, these numbers are valid for the specific crew composition, nothing more, nothing less.

Click to Download - RS Means PowerPoint Presentation

Good Luck.

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Muhammad Saqib 👤 Member for 7 years 7 months

Yes you are right but i have to start form somewhere. 

Atleast there are some standards which we used at the start of the project. I really don't have the site experience

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Anoon Iimos 👤 Member for 19 years 9 months

Activities in building construction are certain. Volume of works can be calculated exactly. So manpower always depend on the volume of works and maneuverability. However, technology becomes sophisticated that sometimes reduces the number of manpower as compared from traditional or conventional ways.

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