I’ve noted over the years a significant degree of time losses following the drywall stage. Sometimes even the drywall stage, but that is a different story. Post drywall delays are debilitating on my construction momentum. The inability to get through the next couple stages is resulting in delay of about a month. Culprits are fuzzy completion dates, inability to commit to starts, slow delivery, poor cleanup efforts slowing turnover to the next stage, and busy crews. Rolling over from one delay to the next is costing me week after week, pushing out tile and electrical final work, even impacting delivery date for concurrent shop work booked in advance for delivery to site and not flexible. Part of the answer is much clearer expectations from us as the builder to compel crews to deadlines. I need these guys to prioritize my schedule over their internal schedule. The incentive structure on these parts of the build is totally misaligned with my interests and costs not decisive factors in trade performance and payment. This is the construction conundrum of the era, perhaps every era!
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