Construction and AEC leaders — for 96 years, the construction industry has progressively gotten slower at delivering buildings. Not stalled. Not plateaued. Actually declining.

In this clip, Wayne Larsen of PT Blink puts the numbers on the table: → The Empire State Building — 101 floors, 13 months and 15 days.

Today, that same building would take 5 to 6 years
→ Manufacturing gets more productive every year. Agriculture gets better. Even government services improve
→ Construction uses more money, more materials, and more labor to produce the same amount of housing every single year
→ The industry isn't just failing to improve — it's actively going backwards This isn't a temporary dip.

It's a 96-year trend. And Wayne calls it what it is: a systematic productivity failure. Every other industry has figured out how to do more with less over time. Construction is doing less with more.
That's not a challenge to overcome — it's a system to replace.

👇 Drop a comment: Is your firm measuring productivity year over year — or just assuming things are getting better?

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