I.T. survey within the construction industry of Hong Kong

This paper presents results taken from a 1998 postal survey of the consulting firms and the contractors of the Hong Kong construction industry. The survey included, as one part of the four-part survey instrument, the 'Health Check of the Strategic Exploitation of I.T.' developed by the UK Centre of Excellence for Construct IT (Betts and Shafagi 1997). This paper present the results of the IT health check for a population sample of three hundred and sixteen contractors and another population sample of two hundred and seven consultant firms operating within the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China.