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Record W2129450771 · doi:10.1061/41020(339)18

Overtime and Productivity in Electrical Construction

2009· article· en· W2129450771 on OpenAlex
Awad S. Hanna, Gilbert Haddad

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Bibliographic record

VenueConstruction Research Congress 2009 · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicOccupational Health and Safety Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOvertimeProductivityScheduleMacroWork (physics)Computer scienceOperations managementBusinessLabour economicsEngineeringEconomicsEconomic growth

Abstract

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Electrical contractors are at high risk, mainly because of the high percentage of labor in electrical construction activities and the fact that a significant part of their work is last in line in a project, which leads to facing schedule compression. The main schedule compression techniques are overtime, overmanning, and second shift. This paper quantifies the impact of overtime on labor productivity for electrical contractors. Several studies have addressed overtime, but they tend to be old and the source of data is questionable. This paper contains both quantitative and qualitative analyses. The qualitative analysis is based on a survey sent to companies around the United States and Canada and analyzes contractors' responses regarding use of overtime on their projects. The quantitative analysis consists of collecting productivity data from different contractors and studying the effect of using overtime on labor productivity. Statistical models are developed and show the behavior of productivity when using overtime. The quantitative analysis further contains macro and micro approaches. The macro approach model projects where productivity for the whole project is tracked, and no specific overtime schedule is used. As for the micro approach, it shows the effect of using a fixed overtime schedule using the Measured Mile Method (MMM) which compares the productivity in unimpeded time to that in impacted time in order to determine how significantly the project's productivity was impacted. The models developed show that as the number of hours per week increases, the productivity decreases. This study will decrease disputes among owners and contractors regarding the price of additional work. Furthermore, the paper presents a scientific method for forward pricing overtime work and aiding in understanding the risks and rewards of implementing different types of overtime schedules. It also offers valuable insight with regards to safety, supervision, worker fatigue, absenteeism, and other factors related to overtime use.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesResearch integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.515
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.095
GPT teacher head0.502
Teacher spread0.406 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it