4.1.2. The Internet
It is expected that the Internet will be of a great
potential advantage to project managers over the next
5 years. The Internet provides speedy information
transfer, so messages not only can reach the recipients
more speedily and accurately, but also can be traceable.
Besides, it saves money for construction companies
in having to communicate with their overseas
construction sites because the cost of providing and
maintaining the Internet to construction sites costs less
compared to couriering and IDD telephone usage. On
the other hand, it makes a lot of sense in providing an
Internet link between the firms due to the transfer of a
very high volume of information across sites and the
head office and between other firms. The Internet is a
global network, which does not have restrictions on
locations, time or different computer-operating systems.
Rapid evolution of communication technologies is
making distributed projects increasingly viable [42].
The project participants could be widely dispersed yet
coordinated by sophisticated tools. The increasing
availability and the usage of the Internet by small to
very large-scale construction organisations has
enabled project management to be performed over
the web.