This is a follow up to my previous post on industries being behind the construction industry in technology adoption. I ran across and even better example then the insurance companies I mentioned in my last post that is a little closer to home.  Specialty Publishing who writes Constructech magazine appears to be more concerned with Y2K then with keeping ahead on technology. This is a magazine dedicated to technology in the construction industry yet they appear to be about 10 years behind.  At the end of last year I ordered a copy of their IT playbook. To do this I went to their website and filled out the order form, several days later I received an email with a form that I needed to complete and submit my credit card information with via fax. Online payment would have allowed this process to be completed in a couple minutes. Online payments are so common that the small pizza place next our office accepts them. You took what should have been a 2 minute process to order into a 20+ minute process of emails, faxes, and filling out multiple forms. Next the Postal Service damages the magazine so bad that it was returned, so they have to mail me a new one. Had Constructech been operating in 2010 instead of 1995 I should have downloaded this after placing my order online. The worst part is the magazine is supposed to be experts on technology in this industry. Their latest example of being clueless is their articles about blogging, yet they themselves do not have a blog.

In the mean time construction companies are disposing of their paper processes at a record rate and moving to web based project management applications, BIM modeling, blogs, and virtual offices. Many of our clients receive our invoices electronically and pay us through direct deposit. I think the editors at Constructech should put down there pen and paper and visit a modern day construction site.