Capacity improvement and construction industry effectiveness (the construction industry development/CID) is required to obtain building and civil engineering products whilst supporting sustainable national economic and social development objectives to increase the industry clients’ financial value, environmental duty delivery processes, and domestic construction enterprise viability Improving the CI’s performance on a socio-economic developmental level is recognised because agencies worldwide administer the industry’s continuous development despite their opposing views. With resource constraints in developing countries, CID trending reviews determine sophisticated economies increasing, client demands, technological and social change, and global competitions. 

One short-term aim by CIB Task Group 29 implies globalisation studies of developing countries’ CIs. Many construction projects require national socio-economic development beyond the industries undertaking and size compensation capability. International-large projects can only undertake foreign contractors as they are prominent among larger construction firms in developing countries. Developing nations are advised to utilise their construction work for indigenous contractors support to replace foreign firms for development.

      The project procurement and administrative arrangements in developing countries inherited from Western countries have different history, culture, collective experience and construction breadth expertise that determine the documentation, and practices, specifying the participant and relationship roles—power and authority networking.

Countries should give environmental attention for high-level socio-economic developmental protection. However, the environmental preservation issue should interest developing countries facing severe environment-related problems due to fragile environments encountering high-level land degradation. The physical resource volume required to meet the infrastructural and building needs’ backlog is fulfilled for development, raising people’s living standards. These key requirements put pressure on the countries’ resources, underlining the sustainable management resource criticality. The most relevant impact is the resource utility, as people rely on natural resources for basic needs. 

The economies of many developing countries are confronted by severe difficulties owing to a combination of lower commodity prices, higher energy costs, falling exchange rates and rising inflation. The CI is facing reduced demand levels as adjustment programmes involve government capital investment cuts. CIs should do well despite the constraints in its operating environment for national economic recovery and social problem resolution contribution.

      CI’s potential creates jobs in all country parts and stimulates business activities in other economic sectors to develop infrastructures. With public funds under severe strain and chronically short, structure funding strategies are needed. Furthermore investment formulation approaches to broaden ownership base among the population and give the immediate community major development project stakes.

A perception: one-way flow of exports from the industrialized countries to developing ones. However, the firms from industrialized countries are also active in each other’s markets and some exporting construction enterprises are from developing countries. The globalised implications for developing countries’ CIs require costs and benefit studies to national construction industries, maximised globalisation benefits and the adverse effects minimised for developing-country firms and foreign counterparts, intra-industry diffusion of technologies and knowledge.

      Reconsidering the arrangements of developing countries’ CIs is mandatory, especially since the countries which borrowed have made reviews or replacements. Effort is required for cultural attributes and individual developing countries’ values in their construction practices and procedures—existing ones are obsolete and inappropriate.

The CI’s response to environmental problems receives less attention. Considering the resources  and expertise constraints which these countries face, emphasis should be on prevention through investigation and the private sector’s weakness as the role of the government would be paramount. Construction companies and practitioners should continuously search for input and methods to minimise the negative construction activity impacts on the environment.

      The C21 initiative in Singapore was a national CI major review series undertaken in developed countries in recent years. These completed studies include performance improvement, identification, adaptation and application of best practices and manufacturing. These industries benefit from: quality, waste and safety management; just-in-time; client focus; supply chain management; and information technology strategies.