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Feb 3, 2022

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Last week we looked at trends in skyscraper construction speed for New York and Chicago, finding that New York has gotten significantly slower at…

Mar 24

(Note: the analysis below of floor plate size vs construction speed is incorrect due to autocorrelation effects. For a correct analysis, see the…

Mar 15

When talking about (the lack of) construction productivity growth, or the fact that we used to build things much faster than we do today, commentators…

Mar 9

This week we’re continuing our investigation of productivity trends in US construction. We previously looked at single family home construction, and…

Feb 28

The modern world uses shocking amounts of steel - in the US, we make roughly 575 pounds of steel per person per year. At the peak of US steelmaking in…

Feb 23

In the New York Times, Ezra Klein investigated the recent Goolsbee and Syverson paper on construction productivity we recently looked at. Klein suggests…

Feb 18

I've mentioned a few times that I generally prefer looking at construction progress through the lens of cost indexes rather than productivity indexes…

Feb 1

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