The Department of Construction started in the School of Architecture, Planning and Building which was established in 1958 in the Kumasi College of Arts, Science and Technology. It prepared students for intermediate certificates of the Institute of Building in the United Kingdom until 1966 when it awarded the first BSc Building Technology degree.
The Department of Construction Technology and Management (formerly Building Technology) came into being when the School of Architecture, Planning and Building was renamed Faculty of Architecture in 1961. It had since been a Department in the Faculty, which later became the Faculty of Environmental and Development Studies in 1988. With the restructuring of the University into the collegiate system, the Department became part of the Faculty of Architecture and Building Technology within the College of Architecture and Planning. In 2007, the BSc Building Technology programme was restructured to award two degrees namely, BSc Construction Technology and Management, and BSc Quantity Surveying and Construction Economics. With further restructuring of the Collegiate system in 2010, the Faculty of Architecture and Building Technology was abolished and the Department became one of the four academic Departments under the two-tier College of Architecture and Planning. Currently there is an adoption of the three-tier system under the new College of Art and Built Environment which was formally Architecture and Planning. The Department is now under the Faculty of Built Environment.