Productivity rates

Published rates from freely available sources, shown side by side and each one cited — plus field rates contributed by planners who have actually run the crews.

We do not merge sources into a single figure. A blended number is one nobody can defend, and the first question you will be asked is where it came from. You get every source, named, and you choose.

The first set lands with the tools

It covers blockwork, plaster, rebar fixing, formwork, concrete placing and MEP first fix, drawn from USACE EP 415-1-3, the Business Roundtable C-2 report, the MCAA sixteen factors and NECA studies. All freely available, all citable.

The format:

Blockwork, 200mmRateBasis
USACE EP 415-1-3 (1979)0.8 mh/m²Published, US
MCAA1.1 mh/m²Published, adjusted for conditions
Contributed — UAE, 6 entries0.6–1.4 mh/m²Field data, range only below 5 entries

Illustrative ranges, for sanity-checking only. Not a substitute for your own as-built data, and not for use as evidence in a contractual claim.

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Where field rates come from

And what we do with them

From working planners, one entry at a time. Structured fields only — work type, region, conditions, crew size, sample size. There is no box to type a client or project name into, which is deliberate.

Below five entries we show the range and the count, never a median. A median of two numbers is a lie with a decimal point.

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