For the industry to improve, the culture needs to change, the structure needs to change, and the incentives need to be aligned. Fragmentation, path dependence, and perverse incentives are the three horsemen of the construction apocalypse!
That Peter Principle observation is so spot on it hurts. The live-fire analogy really captures why training never seems to stick in this industry, everyone's trying to learn complex coordination while bullets are flying overhead. I've seen this pattern play out on tons of jobsites where the super is learning to juggle twelve different subs while they're already three weeks behind. The inch by inch framing makes way more sense than waiting for some magic platfrom fix, been part of implementations where everyone thought tech would solve everyhting and it just became another tool people had to figure out under pressure.
This makes so much sense and adjusts my expectations for “efficiency” and frustration after building my first building. Started only as the owner and finished it as a GC thinking I got the worst people that I had to change mid construction and that there must be a “better” way lol. This is a reality check. The inch by inch mindset makes perfect sense now. This will save me a lot of frustration in the future. Thank you.
For the industry to improve, the culture needs to change, the structure needs to change, and the incentives need to be aligned. Fragmentation, path dependence, and perverse incentives are the three horsemen of the construction apocalypse!
Yep! And hence the title of the article “Construction is Never Going to Get Better” 😂
That Peter Principle observation is so spot on it hurts. The live-fire analogy really captures why training never seems to stick in this industry, everyone's trying to learn complex coordination while bullets are flying overhead. I've seen this pattern play out on tons of jobsites where the super is learning to juggle twelve different subs while they're already three weeks behind. The inch by inch framing makes way more sense than waiting for some magic platfrom fix, been part of implementations where everyone thought tech would solve everyhting and it just became another tool people had to figure out under pressure.
This article comes at the perfect time. Can tech change deep patterns? So true.
This makes so much sense and adjusts my expectations for “efficiency” and frustration after building my first building. Started only as the owner and finished it as a GC thinking I got the worst people that I had to change mid construction and that there must be a “better” way lol. This is a reality check. The inch by inch mindset makes perfect sense now. This will save me a lot of frustration in the future. Thank you.