Extraordinary measures for merely ordinary results was just one way to sum up the growing gap between the demand and supply of skilled construction labor, according to a mechanical trades performance survey conducted by the Construction Users Roundtable.
"Construction owners will not avoid the impact of tightening labor supply and poor quality due to declining skill base," states the September issue of the MCCA Reporter. "The impact on the owner will be inevitable: longer schedules, escalating costs, declining quality, decreasing productivity, an aging workforce, declining safety performance due to excessive overtimes and the exertion of 'extraordinary measures' for merely 'ordinary results."