The quest for increasing productivity in construction companies is evident due to the
need of improving efficiency, reducing costs and improvement of final product quality.
These needs can come from good knowledge and management of productivity on
the site, not to mention the reduction in the consumption of project resources. This
thesis aims to make a comparative analysis of productivity indices between execution
of masonry, through a case study in six construction sites in Pernambuco, all from a
big construction company, with emphasis on wall execution in ceramic block and
gypsum block. Therefore, two main construction indicators were observed:
Productivity Unitary Ratio and Loss of Labor Productivity. After cumulative
Productivity Unitary Ratio for the 6 work sites the obtained result for ceramic block
walls was an average of 0.47 person-hours /m², while for gypsum block wall the
average Productivity Unitary Ratio was person-hours /m². This way, the gypsum
block showed a better efficiency when compared to ceramic block through the
analysis of loss of labor productivity, 10% and 6%, respectively. It was possible then
to conclude that the gypsum block presented a 15% higher productivity when
compared to the ceramic block on wall execution.