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How does control over labor affect project success?
Self-performing GCs can improve project outcomes by directly managing labor, reducing delays and ensuring quality work.
Welcome to “Ask an Expert,” a series exploring some of today’s pressing topics in the construction industry, and how a self-performing general contractor can bring added value to your projects. From labor availability to cost control, and schedule reliability to quality assurance, we highlight some of the complexities and opportunities you might be facing on current and future projects. Our experts share their perspective on how self-performing construction teams can make a difference, so that you have a bit more insight to move forward with confidence.
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How does control over labor affect project success?
Lance Wafler, DPR field operations lead, explains the benefit of having self-performing skilled construction labor when it comes to control over your project. Self-performing GCs can improve project outcomes by directly managing labor, reducing delays and ensuring quality work.
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This discussion has been edited for clarity.
How does control over labor affect project success?
Lance: In our industry, there are several outside factors in terms of going to an outside subcontractor or trade partner. But when we control labor, we can control how we solve problems. That's where schedules get derailed is as a subcontractor solution or a trade partner solution. We don't control the labor. When you control the labor, you control the outcome.
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Posted on April 9, 2025
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