Development and implementation of Building Site Information Management (BUSIM) for Nigeria Building Industry

Abstract

Overtime, building project delivery failures have been blamed on other factors except poor site management. Site management is considered by most building experts as off work-plan activities and as such attention is less giving to its process thereby creating delays in project. Also some others taken it serious have been shrouded with the manual process which in turn complicates the entire system. To solve this menace, the core objective of this paper is the development and deployment of cloud custom based building site information management system with emphasis on real time safety tracking, equipment maintenance tracking and management, materials management, site risk analytics and project progress report. The system is collaborative one and can be updated real time. To achieve the outcome, investigation into existing system was first carried out, as such, system failure were detected to upgrade the new system. However, in building the new system , suitable programming language that can give desired results were examined and Python 3.8 was utilized with Django 2.0.3 framework and Microsoft Visual Studio (MS VS) for the smooth running of programming languages. Due to Django having an ORM, supporting multiple databases, SQLite3 database, a simple database for lightweight applications was used. It is lightweight, fast for simple to medium applications. Results showed that BUSIM prototype app when applied not only will help in assessment of risk and real time overview for building site management, but will additionally improve the industry when adopted and applied to replace current manual process.