Exploratory literature review of blockchain in the construction industry

Scott, Denis J.; Broyd, Tim; Ma, Ling

doi:10.1016/j.autcon.2021.103914

Cited by 112 publications

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“…The research inside the literature has been done by querying the SCOPUS database with each of the techniques listed in Figure 4 combined with "building*" or "construction*" through the Boolean operator AND. In order to restrict the results only to articles relevant to the construction industry, we have limited the search to the journal ISSN listed (Scott et al 2021).…”

Section: Ai Techniques In Aecmentioning

confidence: 99%

Artificial intelligence feasibility in construction industry

Luca¹,

Ania²,

Fulvio³

2022

Proceedings of the 2022 European Conference on Computing in Construction

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has a great impact on increasing productivity and economic growth in many sectors. However, in the construction industry, AI is still limited to research and few pilot projects. This study aims to depict the current rate of AI adoption in the industry and understand the obstacles that are hindering the required changes in the companies' business models. The data are collected through a tailored questionnaire sent to experts and practitioners in the field. The results show that labourskilled shortage, data quality, cost-benefit and lack of case studies and standards have been identified as major issues. The findings help to understand the needs of construction practitioners and propose possible solutions.

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Section: Ai Techniques In Aecmentioning

confidence: 99%

Artificial intelligence feasibility in construction industry

Luca¹,

Ania²,

Fulvio³

2022

Proceedings of the 2022 European Conference on Computing in Construction

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“…Based on that evolution, the literature review was limited to the period between 2019 and 2022, being focused almost exclusively on journal articles. Given those criteria and considering the categorizations offered by key publications in the field, the main foci of blockchain applications within the BE are on contract management, information management, project lifecycle management, stakeholder management, intelligent systems and integrating blockchain with other technologies (Xu et al 2022), procurement and supply chain management (Kifokeris & Koch 2020;Scott et al 2021;Tezel et al 2021;Xu et al 2022, Yoon & Pishdad-Bozorgi 2022, smart cities (Scott et al 2021;Samuel et al 2022), sustainability (Shojaei et al 2019), and decentralized organizations (Scott et al 2021, Tezel et al 2022. Moreover, the industry report produced by Arup (Nguyen et al 2019) divided the construction sector into five markets (cities, energy, property, transport, and water), and then presented the potential of blockchain in five subcategories in each markete.g., smart cities integrated with the IoT (cities), energy microgrids (energy), sale and asset transactions (property), material passports (transport), and utility contracts and billing (water).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When high levels of trust, data security, immutability, transparency, and a multi-user consensus are sought, DLT applications can be preferred over centralized databases. Typical examples of these applications are smart (automated) contracts, or digital tokens denoting a value or ownership (Scott et al, 2021). A popular type of DLT is blockchain, introduced with the cryptocurrency Bitcoin by pseudonymous author Satoshi Nakamoto (2008)where transactions are recorded as a chain of data blocks linked with one another.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Conceptual Framework for Lean Construction and Blockchain Synergy

Tezel¹,

Kifokeris²,

Formoso³

et al. 2022

Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction

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Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology referring to decentralized databases existing across multiple locations and participants, in which the need for intermediaries to process, validate or authenticate transactions is reduced or eliminated. Such transactions are synchronously held by computer nodes in distributed copies, with cryptographic signatures validated through consensus protocols and transparency achieved through peer-to-peer transactional access among the nodes. Blockchain-based applications can be preferred over centralized databases on the basis of high levels of trust, data security, immutability, transparency, and multi-user consensus protocols. There is growing interest in blockchain in the built environment, with a focus on procurement, the management of supply chain project-life cycle, smart cities, intelligent systems, sustainability, and decentralized organizations. However, there is little discussion on whether and how blockchain will affect the advances in lean construction (LC) and vice versa. This paper therefore proposes a framework that establishes interactions between blockchain and lean construction, which can potentially facilitate the implementation of both. It is based on a synthetic literature review. The results indicate that blockchain can facilitate the implementation of LC (e.g., recording and retrieving of Last Planner data), and vice versa (e.g., value stream mapping guiding the integration of blockchain with processes).

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“…The terms used for the search are reported in Figure 3. These databases were chosen because they are accepted as the most reliable and comprehensive scientific databases and used by various researchers to conduct literature review (e.g., [60,61,62,63,64,65]). They also contain other digital, scientific databases such as IEEE Xplore 17 so that researchers can access related papers in a topic without the need for searching different databases.…”

Section: Paper Retrievalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unveiling the Actual Progress of Digital Building Permit: Getting Awareness through a Critical State of the Art Review

Güler¹,

Fauth²,

Malacarne³

et al. 2021

Preprint

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Growing interest is awarded to the digitalization of the building permitting use case and many works are developed about the topic. However, the subject is very complex and many aspects are usually tackled separately, making it very hard for traditional literature reviews to grasp the actual progress in the overall topic. This paper unveils the detailed state of the art in Digital Building Permitting (DBP) by critically analyzing the literature by means of a set of coding tags (research progress, implementation, affected DBP workflow steps, ambitions addressed) assigned by a multidisciplinary team. The mainly addressed aspects of the digitalization of building permits resulted to be the technologies to check the compliance of design proposals against regulations, followed by the digitalization of regulations. Lacking aspects are instead the involvement of officers, scalability of solutions and interoperability of data, intended both as data validation and as integration of geoinformation with building models.

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Exploratory literature review of blockchain in the construction industry

Cited by 112 publications

References 118 publications

Artificial intelligence feasibility in construction industry

Artificial intelligence feasibility in construction industry

A Conceptual Framework for Lean Construction and Blockchain Synergy

Unveiling the Actual Progress of Digital Building Permit: Getting Awareness through a Critical State of the Art Review

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