A proposed framework for Construction 4.0 based on a review of literature

Sawhney, Anil; Riley, Mike; Irizarry, Javier; Pérez, Cristina Toca

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“…Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a pressing need in the construction industry to increase productivity, improve project performance, address labor shortage, reduce fragmentation, introduce standardization, and increase collaboration (Oesterreich and Teuteberg, 2016;Barbosa et al, 2017;Nassereddine et al, 2020aNassereddine et al, , 2020bEl Jazzar et al, 2020aBou Hatoum et al, 2020;Hatoum and Nassereddine, 2020;Sawhney et al, 2020). In addition to that, the labor-intensive nature of construction projects and the dynamic nature of construction sites make the construction industry one of most hazardous industries in the world (OSHA, 2019;OSHA, 2020a;Eurostat, 2020;.…”

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Analysis of COVID-19 Concerns Raised by the Construction Workforce and Development of Mitigation Practices

Hatoum

Ali

Nassereddine

et al. 2021

Front. Built Environ.

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The coronavirus outbreak has created a global health crisis that has disrupted all industries, including the construction industry. Following the onset of the pandemic, construction workers faced and continue to face unprecedented safety and health challenges. Therefore, construction employers established new safety precautions to protect the health and safety of the workforce and minimize the spread of the virus. The new precautions followed the advice and guidelines offered by different health and safety agencies like the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). With construction projects resuming operations, it becomes important to analyze the coronavirus-related health and safety concerns of construction workforce and understand how the new safety procedures can assist on jobsites. Existing studies mostly focused on interviews and surveys with construction companies to understand the impact on project performance and supply chains. However, no study has yet to analyze the United States construction workforce. This paper fills the gap by providing a qualitative descriptive analysis of the COVID-19 complaints data gathered by OSHA from construction jobsites. Information gathered by OSHA includes the jobsite location, the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) of the construction company, the type of the complaint (i.e., formal or non-formal), and a thorough description of the complaint. N-grams were employed to analyze the complaints, detect trends, and compile a list of the most frequent concerns reported by the workforce. The analysis of the complaints data identifies safety practices that were most violated, highlights major safety and health concerns for construction workers, and pinpoints geographical areas that have seen a surge in complaints. The study also synthesized the existing research corpus and compiled a list of 100 best practices that construction employers can adopt to mitigate the concerns of the workforce. The findings of this study provide insights into the safety and health trends on construction sites, lay the foundation for future work of academicians and practitioners to address the concerns faced by construction workers, and serve as lessons learned for the industry in the case of any future pandemic.

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Analysis of COVID-19 Concerns Raised by the Construction Workforce and Development of Mitigation Practices

Hatoum

Ali

Nassereddine

et al. 2021

Front. Built Environ.

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“…Finally, one of the vital growth indicators for an industrial sector is the presence of peer networks for information, benchmarking, and feedback. The same is valid for adaptation of construction 4.0 as well, where there is an imminent organic need for the development of such peer networks (Sawhney et al, 2020). However, construction 4.0 still lacks from having such knowledge networks currently…”

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“…This nature can be attributed to the unique challenges faced by the industry in terms of labor-intensive processes and uncertainty in project implementations. Further, the construction industry experiences significant fragmentation in various dimensions that serve as barriers to innovation (Sawhney et al, 2020). Thus, a slow rate of transformation is usually witnessed in this sector, underlining the complexity of the industry and its conservative nature to disruptive changes (Forcael et al, 2020).…”

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Construction 4.0: what we know and where we are headed?

Karmakar¹,

Delhi²

2021

ITcon

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The last decade has witnessed unprecedented changes in the technologies and processes involved in the construction industry. The philosophies associated with Industry 4.0 now reverberate in construction 4.0. Digitalization and interconnectivity in the cyber-physical systems of the sector are at the heart of such transformation. Construction 4.0 brings to the table a plethora of technologies and associated processes over the construction project lifecycle. The current study performs a state-of-art literature review to summarize the knowledge advancement in construction 4.0. A layered conceptualization spanning across project lifecycle utilizing the people-process-technology dimensions is presented to summarize the current understanding of Construction 4.0. The cyber-physical space is classified into the physical, digital tool, data, and core data security and interoperability layers. The inter-layer and intra-layer interactions and information flows are then conceptualized based on the extant literature, including the human interaction and interventions. The people-process-technology dimensions were discussed across the project lifecycle through interactions in these layers. It is observed that Construction 4.0 is set to be driven by data creation, data flow, data transformation, and data storage across the project lifecycle to ensure a collaborative environment across the stakeholders who interact and associate with different layers of Construction 4.0. The article finally presents challenges with the current formulations and explores ways to further our knowledge in the area.

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“…The conceptual model of a digital ecosystem consists of a business network of third-party developers, boundary objects, and a core digital platform [34]. The ultimate goal is to create an interconnected environment that integrates organizations, processes, and information with the purpose of efficiently designing, constructing, and operating assets [54]. According to a report of the Digital Supply Chains in the Built Environment Work Group (DSCiBE) [55], the introduction of BIM can be considered the first step towards a collaborative digital communication and has also pushed the construction industry to look at how it can deliver value through data.…”

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A Systematic Review of Construction 4.0 in the Context of the BIM 4.0 Premise

Begić

Galić

2021

Buildings

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This paper presents a systematic review of Construction 4.0 in the context of the building information modeling (BIM) 4.0 premise. It comprises a review of the industry in the pre-fourth industrial revolution (4IR) age, the current and anticipated development of the 4IR, Construction 4.0’s origin and applications, and the synergy of its main drivers, i.e., the synergy of BIM with the internet of things (IoT) and big data (BD). The main aim of the paper is to determine the Construction 4.0 drivers and to what extent are they initialized by the 4IR, their development and their synergy with BIM, and the direction of BIM’s implementation in the construction phase. It was found that the main drivers of Construction 4.0, which originated from the 4IR, are BIM, IoT, and BD, but with specific implementations. The results of the analysis of BIM with IoT and/or BD revealed that the integrative approaches combining the aforementioned drivers show signs of project enhancement by providing significant benefits, such as improved real-time monitoring, data exchange and analysis, construction planning, and modeling. Furthermore, it was revealed that the main drivers are mostly applied in the project’s preconstruction phase, which is continuously developing and becoming more automated. The state-of-the-art review presented in this paper suggests that BIM is in transition, adopting Construction 4.0 to become BIM 4.0.

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A proposed framework for Construction 4.0 based on a review of literature

Cited by 51 publications

References 19 publications

Analysis of COVID-19 Concerns Raised by the Construction Workforce and Development of Mitigation Practices

Analysis of COVID-19 Concerns Raised by the Construction Workforce and Development of Mitigation Practices

Construction 4.0: what we know and where we are headed?

A Systematic Review of Construction 4.0 in the Context of the BIM 4.0 Premise

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