ABSTRACT

Over recent decades, industry generally has come to recognise the inefficiencies that exist in paper-based systems. Many sectors of industry have replaced their paper-based systems with electronic systems.The construction sector, however, lags behind other business sectors in harnessing the greater potential of Information Communications Technology (ICT) (Thomas and Hore, 2003; Gunnigan et al., 2004; Hore and West, 2005a).