INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Information Management in Construction Industries



Information Management in Construction Industries

Critical Review of Information Management in Construction Industries

There have been main efforts in order for the development of technology aimed for producing integrated environments of construction and mechanisms required to enhance the coordination between the professionals of construction and property industries. Apparently, the development and utilization of this kind of environment is a difficult task. The major two problems that may be amongst the major contributors to this include: the technology development and its implementation in an effective way.

In the United Kingdom, the construction industry has been the subject matter of critical remarks due to its weak performance by many of institutional and government reports. Many of these reports are of this conclusion that the disjoint industry nature, lack of communication and coordination between parties, inadequate process of investment into development and research and lack of focus of customer is what stops the performance of the industry.

The industry of manufacturing has been a continuous point of reference and also an innovation source in construction from many decades (Koskela 1992). The computer automation and integration have their starting point in manufacturing industry and the implementation of computer automation and integration is even now suitably ahead as compared to its implementation in any industry of construction. In addition to this, manufactures themselves are commonly of this practice of taking view of process for their operations, they commonly model holistic higher stage processes for external as well as internal activities, and discrete activities of product. According to Latham, it was reported in the year 1994 that because of the rambling character of the industry of construction very few amount of work had passed to the modelling process and that it might be able to well become important success strategy.

In addition to this, the lack of developed business codes of ethics in the construction industries of UK must be arranged with this apparent reality that there is not any ordinary construction and design process to restrain this type of exercise upon. Many of the protocols have been set up in the UK during previous years as an effort to make better the construction and design process, characteristically.

Major projects of construction produce process and amass significant real time information preceding to, throughout and post on construction of site. The activities of construction are cloaked in management and information of the process of construction requires proper system information systems which make possible the bi-directional input data, processing of information, broadcasting and operational access. In the past, the burden of storing, broadcasting and functional management project has tumbled over each of the individual member of the project team of the several organizations engaged in the project of construction industry.

The hardware highly developed in combination with improved paper and electronic based system for the management of information make possible the synergistic consistent filing control of information, which decreased the dependence on each organization or individual to take on the task of controlling and storing ...