Abstract
Cloud Computing has become a valuable platform for sustainability in many countries. This study evaluates the cloud computing implementation and its Critical Success Factors (CSFs) towards ensuring sustainable construction projects in Nigeria. Data were collected from previous literature, supplemented by a quantitative approach via a questionnaire survey. Data were collected from 104 construction professionals while cloud computing CSFs were examined using Relative Importance Ranking (RII) and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). The results show that cloud computing’s awareness level is 96.2%, which means that the respondents are aware of cloud computing concept. Furthermore, the result shows that most of the respondents are adopting the concept. The analysis of the CSFs indicated that reliable data storage, performance as well as cost of accessibility and availability were the four most significant CSFs to cloud computing applications. Analysis of the CSFs through EFA generated four main components which include human satisfaction, organization, client’s acceptance, and industry-based. Consequently, this study contributed to existing body of knowledge by highlighting the cloud computing CSFs for achieving sustainable construction project. As such, the results could be a game-changer in the construction industry—not only in Nigeria but also in developing nations where construction projects are implemented through similar style and procedure. This study would be a benchmark for supporting decision-makers to improve data fragmentation, in which the use of data is paramount to the execution of construction works. Finally, the results of this study would be useful for enhancing sustainability and general management of construction projects through cloud computing implementation.
Highlights
Construction is a complex and dynamic industry
Management experts, general builders, heavyduty contractors, special contractors or subcontractors, construction staff and managers, operators and users of the building site are all participants in the construction industry
This research aims at examining the current level of adoption of cloud computing in construction projects in Nigeria, as well as rating and prioritizing the adoption of cloud computing Critical Success Factors (CSFs), which were gathered from previous studies and analyzed by Relative Importance Index (RII) and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA)
Summary
Construction is a complex and dynamic industry. A construction project involves activities and components that are huge in number and interrelated in nature that significantly affect society, community, and environment over their whole life cycle. Beach et al [6] stated that the construction industry is a highly decentralized, data-intensive, project-based market, with heavy data exchange and processing requirements across the life cycle of its goods depending on several different professionals and companies (primarily buildings). The method of planning, reconstructing, rebuilding, and running a building includes conventional disciplines (architectural, structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering) and many modern careers in fields such as environmental science and waste management. Many of these occupations have heavy standards for data sharing. Plans must be built to implement the principle of sustainable growth [10] and enhancement of “sustainable construction” through improving data fragmentation where the use of data is paramount to the execution of all construction works should be adopted
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