This seminar discusses how information and communication technologies (ICT) have impacted the field of quantity surveying over the years. Quantity surveying primarily focuses on managing costs and budgets for large construction projects. While ICT has transformed many professions, quantity surveying has been slower to adopt technological advances, particularly in developing economies like Nigeria. The seminar aims to examine the current state of ICT usage among quantity surveyors in Nigeria's construction industry and increase awareness of ICT's role and benefits despite the costs associated with its implementation and use.

1. This seminar discusses the impact
of information and communication
technology in quantity surveying.
Quantity surveying is primarily
centred on construction and the
management of the costs and
budgets of large projects.

2. The use of ICT has over the years in
different ways influenced and to a certain
degree also changed roles and processes
within the building field. Quantity
Surveying appears to be one of the few
professions that have not been profoundly
transformed by the application of the
technological advancement offered by
digital revolution especially in a developing
economy like Nigeria

3. Motivation came as a result of several
impacts made by the use of ICT
overriding the shortcomings in the
building industry such as; delay in
producing building plans, difficulty in
paper works; that brought about the
need to recognize the roles and impact
of ICT in detail.

4. However, the benefits of ICT come at a
cost since the complexity of work, the
administrative needs, the costs of doing
business, the continual demand for
upgrading and the greater knowhow
required.

5. The objectives of this study are: to
examine the current state of ICT in
professional practice in the Nigerian
construction industry in the context of
a developing economy; to educate
people on the rate of ICT usage in the
building field.

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