- Author
- Mitropoulos, P. | Tatum, C. B.
- Title
- Finding Technology Payback Potential
- Coporate
- University of Texas, Austin
- Report
- Research Report 46-12; Research Team Number 46, October 1996, 43 p.
- Keywords
- construction | methodology
- Abstract
- In August 1993 the Construction Industry Institute formed the Technology Strategy Task Force "to develop a strategy to advance the industry through technology". The task force identified the need to better understand how and why managers in construction firms make decisions to adopt or reject a new technology, what factors affect such decisions, and how existing industry conditions inhibit innovation. This report gives results from the research project sponsored by the task force to fill this need. The study focuses on construction means and methods technologies, which include information technologies for project control, product and process information and electronic communications, and physical technologies for fabricating and installing components.