Author(s)

MyoungBae Seo, NamGon Kim

ICT Convergence and Integration Research Division Korea Institute of Construction Technology Goyang-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, Republic of Korea.

South Korea’s construction industry won orders worth USD 58 billion in 2011, and as such, it has achieved a remarkable growth. However, despite such an impressive quantitative growth, value-added quality growth has been very slow. Thus, the Ministry of Land, Transport and Marine Affairs (MLTM) is pushing ahead with the construction informatization initiative (Construction Continuous Acquisition & Life-cycle Support - CALS) in order to systematically manage a wide range of construction information by stage and to enhance the efficiency of construction costs. This study aims to review the country’s construction CALS to explore a construction development direction.

Construction CALS, project management, land acquisition compensation, facility maintenacne, construction approval, and construction standards

Seo, M. and Kim, N. (2012) Korea’s Construction Business Informatization Overview. Open Journal of Applied Sciences, 2, 15-17. doi: 10.4236/ojapps.2012.24B004.