TY - GEN
T1 - Navigating the Hurdles of Implementing Remote Construction Management in Developing Economies
AU - Ikuabe, Matthew
AU - Aigbavboa, Clinton
AU - Ebekozien, Andrew
AU - Otasowie, Kenneth
AU - Adekunle, Peter
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Overcoming the bottlenecks to successful project delivery is a cardinal mandate for stakeholders in the construction industry. Employing delivery methodologies such as remote construction management offers significant benefits that align with the aforementioned. This study seeks to assess the challenges confronting the implementation of remote construction management in the South African construction industry. Using a quantitative research design, the study collected data from construction professionals in the Gauteng province of South Africa, which were purposively sampled. The retrieved data was subjected to appropriate methods of data analysis, namely mean item score, Kruskal-Wallis h-test, and Student Newman Kaul post hoc test. The study’s findings indicated that the most significant challenges to the deployment of remote construction management are training and skills gap, cost of implementation, and technology integration. Based on the study’s outcome, recommendations were made to help drive the uptake of remote construction management to improve construction project delivery.
AB - Overcoming the bottlenecks to successful project delivery is a cardinal mandate for stakeholders in the construction industry. Employing delivery methodologies such as remote construction management offers significant benefits that align with the aforementioned. This study seeks to assess the challenges confronting the implementation of remote construction management in the South African construction industry. Using a quantitative research design, the study collected data from construction professionals in the Gauteng province of South Africa, which were purposively sampled. The retrieved data was subjected to appropriate methods of data analysis, namely mean item score, Kruskal-Wallis h-test, and Student Newman Kaul post hoc test. The study’s findings indicated that the most significant challenges to the deployment of remote construction management are training and skills gap, cost of implementation, and technology integration. Based on the study’s outcome, recommendations were made to help drive the uptake of remote construction management to improve construction project delivery.
KW - Challenges
KW - Construction
KW - Developing Economies
KW - Digital Technologies
KW - Remote Construction Management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105003638334&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-96-4051-5_159
DO - 10.1007/978-981-96-4051-5_159
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105003638334
SN - 9789819640508
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 1670
EP - 1677
BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, SASBE 2024
A2 - GhaffarianHoseini, Ali
A2 - Ghaffarianhoseini, Amirhosein
A2 - Rahimian, Farzad
A2 - Babu Purushothaman, Mahesh
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - International Conference of Sustainable Development and Smart Built Environments, SDSBE 2024
Y2 - 7 November 2024 through 9 November 2024
ER -