Construction IT

Construction was one of the sectors that took up IT early on with their adoption of CAD drawing systems to replace the drawing board.  IT within the industry has developed from this base.  Project planning is now universally used and the CAD systems have developed to the point where they can provide 3D walk-through models of developments before they have even ‘cut first sod’.

However this early lead was soon lost.  The titles of reports such as ‘Rethinking Construction’ from 1998 and ‘Accelerating Change’ from 2002, although not IT focussed, show that, for a while, the construction industry was having to be pushed into making progress rather than it leading the way.

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