Assessment of Industrial Revolution on Building Production Management

Abstract

Industrial Revolution (IR) has caused tremendous changes in technology which have greatly affected 
the construction industry and her products. With the current changes in technology, the mode of 
operation of construction industry has been changed. The efforts put in place in meeting the demand 
for the products of construction industry particularly building has revealed the extent at which the 
construction of building has adapted to technological changes brought about by industrial revolution. 
All the construction processes of building are no longer with stress, but at ease with the use of 
machines and other means of intelligent networking and the use of managerial policy in order to 
improve the quality of the building. This paper aims at assessing the evolution of industrial revolution, 
its impact on building production management and challenges confronting the evolution. The paper 
adopted literature review and finds that, though, introduction of industrial related technology in 
management of building production harnesses effective use of resources and improved the quality of 
building produced in terms of cost, time and workmanship, there are some challenges slowing down 
the full processes in building production. The paper concludes that all construction stakeholders 
should implement industrial revolution techniques, system and application so as to drive production 
system of the industry to match with the other industries by improving education and training so as to 
meet up with the demand of modern technologies.