Blockchain technology in the AEC industry: Scientometric analysis of research activities

Integration of Blockchain-Enabled Smart Contracts in Construction: SWOT Framework and Social Network Analysis

“…BC is a form of distributed ledger technology (DLT) first introduced in 2008 under the enigmatic pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto [72]. It is a decentralized and immutable ledger system that is distributed and synchronized among diverse locations, institutions, or regions, enabling access for multiple individuals [73]. It consists of a chain of blocks, each containing a set of transactions, which include details such as parties' information, date, time, documentation, price, and updates.…”

“…Facility management [16,17,19,22,24,30,37,40,44,70,73,88,105,107,129,132,155, 165] 18 7 Contract management. administration [1, 4, 10, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 23, 25, 29-31, 33, 35, 44, 49, 50, 69, 70, 86, 95, 99, 109, 112, 122, 128, 129, 133, 143, 149, 150, 154, 163, 169, 172, 186, 192, 196] 39 8 Quality management (Compliance checking) [1, 9, 10, 17, 20, 23, 29, 30, 40, 44, 48, 61, 65, 73, 89, 97, 104, 112, 118, 120, 124, 132, 134, 138, 145, 147, 150, 163-166, 174, 180, 181, 190 [15-17, 25, 30, 40, 43, 53, 61, 69, 73, 86, 125, 139, 147, 158, 159, 169] 18 Change management [1,4,43,54,115,120,133,136,147,150,166,170] 12 Risk management [33,37,73,95,106,121,134,150,181] 9 Subcontract management [10, 31, 35, 39, 42, 48, 57, 58, 60, 68, 95, 98, 99, 102, 110, 111, 114-117, 136, 143, 150, 153, 161, 163, 175, 179, 186, 191] 30 Integrated technology-BIM…”

“…[1, 4, 11, 14, 17, 19, 22, 23, 28, 29, 32, 35, 37, 38, 46, 47, 50, 51, 53, 54, 56, 57, 61, 62, 70, 71, 73, 89, 91, 92, 99, 103-106, 108, 110, 113, 115, 119-122, 124-128, 134-139, 141, 143-149, 151, 152, 155, 157, 162-165, 168, 171, 172, 174, 176, 177, 182, 188, 193, 195] 9Increased anonymity/ privacy[1, 4, 11, 16, 19, 29, 30, 34, 37, 39, 43, 47, 58, 59, 65, 69, 70, 73, 86, 89, 92, 108, 115, 119, 120, 124, 125, 133, 144-146, 150, 151, 156, 163, 172, 184, 186, 189, 191, 193, 195, 196] 10Automation [1, 4, 9-11, 14-17, 21, 22, 24, 28, 29, 31, 33-35, 37, 38, 40, 42, 43, 45, 50, 52-54, 56, 58, 59, 62, 65, 68, 86, 88-90, 92, 98, 100, 101, 104, 107-109, 111-114, 117, 120-122, 124, 126, 128, 129, 131, 134, 136-140, 142-146, 149, 151, 152, 154, 157-159, 162-167, 170, 174, 175, 177, 178, 180, 181, 183,185, 186, 189-191, 193-196] [1, 10, 11, 14, 19, 22, 33, 37, 45-47, 50, 63, 104, 107, 112, 113, 115, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 130, 131, 133, 135, 142, 144, 145, 156, 160, 162, 166, 167, 170, 172, 174, 177, 178, 182, 195] 24 Decision-making[34,60,62,68,73,105,125,128,145,149,151,190,193,195] 25 Efficiency/ improving work[9, 10, 21-23, 32-35, 37, 47, 48, 53-55, 57, 60, 65, 68, 89, 91, 99, 101, 104-106, 112, 113, 119, 121, 127-130, 132, 133, 137, 142, 144, 147, 149, 151, 153, 154, 156-159, 163, 166, 167, 170, 173, 177, 178, 184-186, 188, 190, 193, 195] …”