An Investigation into the Construction Performance of High-Rise Commercial Office Buildings Based on Productivity and Resource Consumption

Abstract

This paper considers recent findings on the comparative performance of high-rise commercial office building construction worldwide. The research comprised a survey of 78 real projects across twelve countries. The proposed hypothesis that increased unit costs, which reflect more complexity or higher quality, translate into decreased productivity rates was not proven to be a strong relationship. A number of other relationships were found to demonstrate strong correlations. The paper concludes by establishing a performance index methodology that can be used to compare construction performance across projects.