Technology is the most important tool or weapon of our today’s world. Everyday we have seen new technology improvements which is helping our lives and making almost everything easy to go, operate and even maintain. New technology developments affect almost all industries as well as our social life, environment, politics and legislation. Focusing one industry that is considerably being impacted by the new wave of technology is the construction industry. Software usage to get instant access to important documents for an autonomous equipment such as performing excavation on site, construction technology is allowing contractors and their employees to perform installation work much more efficient and effective than ever before.
Firstly, we should make definition of construction technology in various points and aspects of the civil engineering. According to CII construction technology,it is the “collection of innovative tools, machinery, modifications and software used during the construction phase of a project”. The whole purpose of construction technology is to help push the industry forward by advanced engineering standards, to drive advancement, innovation and increase in operational efficiency.
There are vast advantages using construction technology like adoption of registered technology can improve construction industry productivity approximately by 30-45% as well as improved building material predictability and reliability. According to research construction technology has proven to be a very successful application for the industry advancing constructability, maintainability, operability, quality and safety while reducing project cost and planned schedule or programme.
Some of the latest trends in construction technology include the increased use of prefabricated units, computer software’s involvement at engineering &design buildings, using green building technology to construct eco-friendly& sustainable structures. There are various types of technology that impact construction industry and re-shape the way of executing project in 21st century. Couple of examples to those technologies are Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), Robotics and Drones, 5 G an Wi-Fi6, Building Information Modelling (BIM), Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Realty (AR), 3D Printing, Mobile and Cloud Technologies, Blockchain.
