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You’re paying for 10 hours of labour and getting 5.5.

That isn’t an opinion. It’s the number. And on every mega-project running today, it’s hiding in plain sight.

The industry calls it a labour shortage. A productivity problem. A scheduling issue. It isn’t. It’s the utilization deficit — the structural gap between what you pay for and what actually gets installed. And nobody is measuring it.

Every day on every active construction project, skilled tradespeople wait. For materials. For information. For decisions. For access. The meter runs the entire time. That cost doesn’t appear in any earned value report, cost variance analysis, or executive dashboard. It is the line item that doesn’t exist.

Until now.

The Utilization Deficit introduces the concept of white space — the measurable gap between resource supply and resource demand — and proves this waste is quantifiable at the estimation phase, long before a single worker sets foot on site.

Inside:

• Why deployment is not utilization — and what the difference is costing you
• How carrying costs hide inside vendor bids and roll into baselines undetected
• The four metrics missing from every project dashboard in the industry
• Why the labour shortage narrative is masking a deeper utilization problem
• Real project data showing 34% of total cost consumed by unscheduled, non-productive time
• A 90-day playbook for measuring and closing the deficit — starting this week

This is not a textbook. It is a manifesto for construction leaders — executives, owners, project managers, superintendents — tired of watching budgets disappear into gaps nobody can explain.

If cost and schedule are the outcome, resource flow is the control. This book shows you how to control the flow.

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