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The construction industry has pushed to adapt to extreme heat, but this summer has shown it can’t avoid the trade-offs of rising temperatures.
Firms have made investments to ensure worker safety and comfort while keeping projects moving during heat waves, but worker reps and experts studying heat impacts say decreased productivity will be a given going forward during an era of increasingly hot summers.
“I don’t have exact dollar amounts or time, but anybody who says this isn’t impacting them I would say is lying,” RSM construction analyst Nick Grandy said.
During extreme heat, construction activities involving physical work on average take 36% longer to execute, according to an exclusive analysis for Bisnow by nPlan, a British construction analytics and software firm that draws from a dataset of 750,000 projects from English-speaking countries around the world.“The question comes down to the human element,” said Jimmy Williams, general…
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