At Kapitol, productivity is a key issue that informs our work, culture, and commitment to innovation.
One of our key vision statements is to Improve the construction industry for a better life, and one of the ways this can be achieved is by embracing smarter, more sustainable ways of working.
That’s why we’re excited to introduce a brand-new five-part video series on one of the most pressing challenges in our industry today: productivity.
Featuring Kapitol Director, Andrew Deveson, this series offers an honest, behind-the-scenes look at what productivity really means in construction — and why now, more than ever, it’s a conversation we must have.
“To my understanding, I think that they broadly think it's a $60 billion a year problem,” Andrew says.
“The lack of productivity growth over the last 30 years in construction — what productivity means to us at the Kapitol Group is just how efficiently do we do our work.”
The first episode explores how the COVID-19 pandemic became a wake-up call, exposing long-standing cracks in supply chains, workforce availability, and project efficiency. But out of that disruption came focus.
“We’ve become really obsessed with productivity, probably coming out of the back of COVID,” Andrew explains.
“You now see lots of talk from government level through to industry associations, the crisis of productivity in the construction industry and what an effect it has on the nation.”
Each episode digs into different facets of the productivity challenge: the unique nature of construction projects, structural inefficiencies, and the historical lack of reinvestment in technology and process improvement.
“If you were to describe to someone what a construction project is, it actually sounds insane,” Andrew adds. “We get something that’s never been built before, choose someone based on the cheapest price, then they choose 50 organisations that have probably never worked together before — and we try to do that once.”
This real-world complexity is exactly what’s holding the industry back. From low margins to underinvestment in digitisation, it’s time for a new approach.
Our five-part productivity series will explore what productivity really means — and how Kapitol is tackling this industry-wide problem.
One of our key vision statements is to Improve the construction industry for a better life, and one of the ways this can be achieved is by embracing smarter, more sustainable ways of working.
That’s why we’re excited to introduce a brand-new five-part video series on one of the most pressing challenges in our industry today: productivity.
Featuring Kapitol Director, Andrew Deveson, this series offers an honest, behind-the-scenes look at what productivity really means in construction — and why now, more than ever, it’s a conversation we must have.
“To my understanding, I think that they broadly think it's a $60 billion a year problem,” Andrew says.
“The lack of productivity growth over the last 30 years in construction — what productivity means to us at the Kapitol Group is just how efficiently do we do our work.”
The first episode explores how the COVID-19 pandemic became a wake-up call, exposing long-standing cracks in supply chains, workforce availability, and project efficiency. But out of that disruption came focus.
“We’ve become really obsessed with productivity, probably coming out of the back of COVID,” Andrew explains.
“You now see lots of talk from government level through to industry associations, the crisis of productivity in the construction industry and what an effect it has on the nation.”
Each episode digs into different facets of the productivity challenge: the unique nature of construction projects, structural inefficiencies, and the historical lack of reinvestment in technology and process improvement.
“If you were to describe to someone what a construction project is, it actually sounds insane,” Andrew adds. “We get something that’s never been built before, choose someone based on the cheapest price, then they choose 50 organisations that have probably never worked together before — and we try to do that once.”
This real-world complexity is exactly what’s holding the industry back. From low margins to underinvestment in digitisation, it’s time for a new approach.
Our five-part productivity series will explore what productivity really means — and how Kapitol is tackling this industry-wide problem.
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