Information Management

DEPARTMENT OF QUANTITY SURVEYING FACULTY OF ENVIROMENTAL DESIGN

AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

PRMT 810

BY

AINA OMOWUMI TINUOLA

MSC/ENV-DESIGN/2161/2011-2012

AUGUST, 2012

Since the time of creation, man has been known to have a sense of living in a comfortable environment. To achieve this lot of developments have been carried out over the centuries. These developments have been tailored towards achieving- good roads, drinkable water supply, easy means of communication and transportation, and clean and healthy habitat. The idea of constructing houses, roads, bridges, and so on can be traced to the time when man developed the instinct to improve his standard of living, historically far back as the Stone Age. Also, the civilization that started in Egypt spread to other parts of the world in a sporadic manner, thus turning the world to what we have today- “ a Global Village”.

Since man is dynamic in nature, therefore, to achieve his goal of better living condition he has to adapt to the changing contemporary Business Environment because of the globalization of the economy, Transformation of industrial economics and societies to knowledge and information based service industries, Transformation of the business environment and climate. All the changes listed above, coupled with equally organizational redesign, have created conditions for a fully digital firm because digital firms sense and respond to their environments for more rapidly than traditional firms, giving them more flexibility to survive in turbulent times.

Construction is an exciting and dynamic process which often provides high income for workers and contractors and also for the clients; it is an appealing career opportunity. However the seasonal and sporadic nature of construction workers, construction contracting is a very competitive business with high rate of bankruptcy. It is widely recognized that construction as a discipline is a combination of...