Blockchain in the Construction Sector: A Socio-technical Systems Framework for the Construction Industry

Li, Jennifer; Greenwood, David; Kassem, Mohamad

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-00220-6_7

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“…Blockchain is a peer-to-peer (P2P), distributed data structure that allows transactional data to be recorded chronologically and stored securely (Li et al, 2018a) in a sequence or chain of blocks via cryptography. It is a type of DLT with specific features.…”

Section: Blockchain Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Blockchain essentially works as a transparent layer underneath the transactions associated with those technologies. Some of these potential areas of application for the industry are facilitating collaboration and trust among stakeholders, P2P commercial transactions, digital passports, proof of ownership and rights, supply chain traceability, smart contracts, tokenization of value and assets, accelerated planning and design processes, digital twins, decreased transactional and financial costs, proof of provenance, reduced human errors and improved IoT applications, formation of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), and easier/less costly insurance arrangements (Heiskanen, 2017;Kinnaird and Geipel, 2017;Turk and Klinc, 2017;Li et al, 2018a;2018b;Penzes, 2018;Qian and Papadonikolaki, 2019). Li et al (2019a) conducted a systematic literature review on conceptual models and practical use cases regarding blockchain and digital ledger solutions in the built environment, discretized in the areas of smart energy, smart cities/sharing economy, smart government, smart homes, intelligent transport, BIM in construction management, business models, and organizational structures.…”

Section: Applications Of Blockchain Technology In the Aec Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Preparing construction supply chains for blockchain technology: An investigation of its potential and future directions

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Blockchain, a peer-to-peer, controlled, distributed database structure, has the potential to profoundly affect current business transactions in the construction industry through smart contracts, cryptocurrencies, and reliable asset tracking. The construction industry is often criticized for being slow in embracing emerging technologies and not effectively diffusing them through its supply chains. Often, the extensive fragmentation, traditional procurement structures, destructive competition, lack of collaboration and transparency, low-profit margins, and human resources are shown as the main culprits for this. As blockchain technology makes its presence felt strongly in many other industries like finance and banking, this study investigates the preparation of construction supply chains for blockchain technology through an explorative analysis. Empirical data for the study were collected through semistructured interviews with 17 subject experts. Alongside presenting a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis (SWOT), the study exhibits the requirements for and steps toward a construction supply structure facilitated by blockchain technology.

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Section: Blockchain Technologymentioning

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Section: Applications Of Blockchain Technology In the Aec Industrymentioning

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Preparing construction supply chains for blockchain technology: An investigation of its potential and future directions

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“…Artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies' rapid developments have yielded significant contributions to the current global environment [54]. This rapid advancement has resulted in a paradigm shift from the real world to a digitized world, via numerous automated devices and effective processes that enable time-and cost-savings [55].…”

Section: Need For Converging Technologies Based Construction Firmentioning

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Converging Technologies for Safety Planning and Inspection Information System of Portable Firefighting Equipment

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Many construction workers are getting injured or killed in fires and explosion accidents each year. The workers are prone to severe fatal accidents due to unavailability of permanent firefighting system in many construction sites, thus they typically rely on portable firefighting equipment (PFE) to minimize fire damage. Many occupational health and safety agencies have developed safety regulations for PFE installation and monitoring in construction. However, in the traditional construction fire safety management process, the installation spots for PFE's are visually identified in a 2D floor plan and then topdown supervisory approach is used to inspect the active availability of the PFE's. Such manually operated conventional methods of PFE installation and monitoring are expensive, prone to manipulation, and do not provide sufficient motivation for voluntarily following fire safety policies. Therefore, this research study develops a fire safety rule-based PFE installation approach and proposes an alternative method for shifting the top-down inspection approach to the bottom-up voluntarily approach for convenient, transparent, and automated safety inspection information delivery. To validate the bottom-up approach concept, a visual language algorithm is initially developed for PFE installation planning system (PFE-IPS) in BIM, followed by an optical character recognition (OCR) and blockchain-based android application for safety inspection information system (SIIS). This paper also presents two case studies to evaluate the feasibility and practicality of the developed systems. The proposed approach out-turn reduces the safety manager's manual efforts and burdens of government safety auditors while enhancing efficiency and reliability. INDEX TERMS Fire safety rule, Visual languages, BIM, Optical character recognition (OCR), Blockchain, Portable firefighting equipment (PFE).

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“…The efforts following this dimension mainly address the problem of process automation and optimization, as well as the effect of mitigating the human intervention in such processes. • Proposal of new integrated frameworks using blockchain, regarding the technical, social and political dimensions in addressing the problem of the relative technological implementation (Li et al, 2018(Li et al, ,2019a The dedicated approach features the following research dimensions:…”

Section: Blockchain Technology In the Construction Sectormentioning

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“…Within the construction sector, and following earlier considerations on the transparency of information access and management in construction projects (Craig & Sommerville, 2006), and the improvement of the contractual and procurement procedures (Eriksson & Lind, 2016), blockchain has been researched both in terms of theoretical understanding and practical implementation (Barima, 2017;Belle, 2017;Turk & Clink, 2017;Wang et al, 2017;Kamenetskii & Yas'kova, 2018;Klyukin et al, 2018;Li et al, 2018Li et al, ,2019aNavadkar et al, 2018). However, the use of blockchain for the integration of the material and economic flows within the production process of a construction project has yet to be investigated.…”

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Blockchain in construction logistics: state-of-art, constructability, and the advent of a new digital business model in Sweden

Kifokeris¹,

Koch²

2019

Computing in Construction

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Research on blockchain technology implementation within civil engineering is quickly emerging. The use of blockchain for the integration of the material and economic flows within construction supply chain-thus creating a new digital business model for the related actors-to enhance a construction project's production, logistics management, and constructability, has been only scarcely investigated. In this paper, this shortage is documented through a comprehensive literature review. Then, the potential of Swedish independent third-party logistics consultants as a fertile ground for such a digital business model, is examined. Finally, conclusions about the pursuance of this potential paradigm shift are drawn.

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Blockchain in the Construction Sector: A Socio-technical Systems Framework for the Construction Industry

Cited by 20 publications

References 26 publications

Preparing construction supply chains for blockchain technology: An investigation of its potential and future directions

Preparing construction supply chains for blockchain technology: An investigation of its potential and future directions

Converging Technologies for Safety Planning and Inspection Information System of Portable Firefighting Equipment

Blockchain in construction logistics: state-of-art, constructability, and the advent of a new digital business model in Sweden

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