Effect of Technological Advancement in Quantity Surveying on Cost Labour and Time Performance of Construction Projects in Abuja.

Abstract

Studies have shown that technological advancement is capable of creating the fundamental impact on the manner in which business processes are in the construction industry the study was under taken to address the problem of lack of effective utilization of technological advancement (use of modern technology software) in the service of quantity surveying (QS)which result to poor cost labor and time performance of construction project in the Nigeria construction industry. the study evaluated the effect of technological advancement in QS on the cost labor and time performance of construction project with major emphasis on the use of QS and other environment ICT software .data was collected from 230 randomly selected registered quantity surveyors in Abuja using questionnaire. Analysis of data was done using mean item score (MIS)the study found all the core QS competence area highly require the use of technological advancement (average MIS=4.338)it was also revealed that the factor limiting the use of technological advancement in the field of QS range between inadequate training (MIs=4.329 )and rate at which software become outdated and require updating (MIS=3.586) relationship between use of ICT and cost labor and time performance was also to found to be very significant (MIS ranges from 3.940-4.517).it was therefore concluded that the use of ICT bin the field of QS has a significant effect on the overall performance of construction project .major recommendation from fro the study was that of QS firms should be strengthening the use of ICT more in the area of BOQ preparation final account procurement technique exercise valuation and estimating in order to improve cost labor and time performance of construction project.