Abstract
Problem statement: The industrialization of the world from whole to site as a result of technological innovation made many industries adopting Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for processing of all their activities from inception to completion, especially in the developed nations. But, the developing nations appear to make sluggish progress towards ICT adoption due to apprehensiveness that their fraudulent activities can easily be traced. Approach: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the contractor’s perception toward ICT innovation acceptance for construction site management and the effectiveness of the innovation. A 519 questionnaire survey was employed for the data collection, while SPSS version 17.0 was used for the descriptive statistic and factorial analysis of the data. Results: The findings show ICT innovation was effective for site management but there were positive and negative factors that affect the ICT innovation based on the contractors view. Conclusion: By evaluating the ICT innovation, empirical evidence has been provided for the ‘wait and see contractors’ to adopt ICT in construction site management and by making adequate provisions against the negative factors.
Highlights
Human needs is not all what is necessary to live; but people need to know what is happening around them and in the world at large, especially construction projects that are carried out at different locations simultaneously, without exchanging information people would be extremely lonely, which may result in time and cost overrun
According to Osman (2008) innovation has been defined as the actual use of a non-trivial change and improvement in a process, product or system that is novel to the institution developing the change
The research method used in this study in order to Innovation in construction: Innovations in the achieve the set objective and to answer the research construction industry refers to the process of question is field study using questionnaire
Summary
Human needs is not all what is necessary to live; but people need to know what is happening around them and in the world at large, especially construction projects that are carried out at different locations simultaneously, without exchanging information people would be extremely lonely, which may result in time and cost overrun. Today there are many means of communication starting from paper and pen, books, encyclopedias, magazines, newspapers, post offices, transistor radio, television sets, portable sound or video recorders, telephones, cell phones, personal computers and internet. The major improvement in communications was the invention of printing. While European monarchs set-up postal services to carry their messages, in France Louis XI founded one in 1477 and in England Henry VIII created the royal mailing in 1512. IBM introduces personal computer using Microsoft operating system in 1981. In. According to Osman (2008) innovation has been defined as the actual use of a non-trivial change and improvement in a process, product or system that is novel to the institution developing the change.
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