As a speedy and cost-effective panacea for addressing the huge housing backlog and service delivery crisis that has plagued South Africa for years, innovative building technologies (IBT) were evolved. This is expedient as the government lacks the wherewithal to meet the housing need that is expected to cost R800 billion by 2020. Also, IBT have gained popularity because of their potential to receptively respond to the high-tech demands of the imminent fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) housing and service delivery requirements. This paper contends that, although by their intrinsic nature, some of the IBT currently applied in housing and service delivery would not have serious problems transiting into the 4IR-compliant status, the stiff resistance to their use in the country is unacceptably and surprisingly pervasive. The billions of rand already expended on IBT notwithstanding, their implementation has been largely unsuccessful owing