Digital Concrete: Productivity in Infrastructure Construction

Diane Coyle and Rehema Msulwa

Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) Discussion Papers from Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE)

Abstract: Construction is a large sector of the UK economy and official statistics show that construction productivity has flatlined despite adoption of advances in digital technology and increased outsourcing. We examine the evolution of the UK infrastructure construction industry and the scope for its digitization, describing the changing industry structure and the range of digital technologies being adopted. We consider the implications of technological innovation for productivity, both actual and measured. We focus on two possible explanations for this particular piece of the productivity puzzle: time lags and different potential sources of mismeasurement.

Keywords: construction; digitisation; infrastructure; productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L10 L11 L16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-09
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