Best Productivity Practices Implementation Index for Infrastructure Projects, Version 1.1

The Best Productivity Practices Implementation Index for Infrastructure Projects (BPPII–Infrastructure) is a tool designed to help project managers or superintendents plan productivity enhancing jobsite activities. The philosophy of the BPPII is that one can only improve what is measured. The BPPII–Infrastructure measures the planning and implementation levels of practices that have the potential to improve construction productivity on infrastructure projects. These practices differ from the Construction Industry Institute (CII) Best Practices since the focus of BPPII is on practices that promote productivity improvement. The BPPII enables managers to identify practices with low implementation levels on their projects. And it helps them carry out practices that, as noted above, positively affect productivity.

The BPPII should be used at the beginning of the execution phase, to help project managers identify the productivity-improving practices to be implemented at the construction site. However, it can also be used at the end of the detailed scope phase to help prepare the project execution plan.

Benefits of the BPPII

The BPPII can be utilized to fit the needs of almost any individual infrastructure project and provides the following:

• a list of the essential practices that need to be planned and implemented on a project
• a checklist that determines the level of planning and implementation of these best productivity practices
• a list of strategies to achieve higher levels of implementation of best productivity practices.