Impact of Industry 4.0 Platform on the Formation of Construction 4.0 Concept: A Literature Review

Abstract

In recent years, due to the rapid development of the fourth industrial revolution and new platforms of information technologies, intelligent systems have received widespread attention in many industries and have brought the potential to improve the efficiency of the construction industry. These facts led to the appearance of a new concept in construction industry called Construction 4.0. Therefore, this article seeks to explore the state of implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies in the construction industry and analyze their impact on the formation of the Construction 4.0 concept. In order to achieve the aim of this article, a literature review was conducted using the most relevant publication in this field. Moreover, authors carried out a bibliometric analysis among 195 selected research articles related to the Industry 4.0 and Construction 4.0 to identify interconnections between these concepts. The results show that Industry 4.0 has the greatest impact on productivity growth in construction and that interest in digital technologies is growing every year, but their penetration into the construction industry is currently slow and limited. The authors suggest that further research needs to be focused on future ethical issues that may arise and on synergies between Construction 4.0 technologies.

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

“…These technologies were augmented using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Big Data Analytics, and Cloud Computing. Systematic reviews in Construction 4.0 (Boton et al, 2020;Forcael et al, 2020;Schönbeck, Löfsjögård and Ansell, 2020;Kozlovska, Klosova and Strukova, 2021) indicate the central nature of BIM usually enhanced and augmented by applications of AR/VR, RFID, and other digital technologies.…”

Assessing the Duration of the Lead Appointed Party Coordination Tasks and Evaluating the Appropriate Team Composition on BIM Projects

“…Gegana and Agirachman conducted a similar analysis on the stadium project [33], while behavior and performance of BIM users in a collaborative work environment were processed in [34]. The impact of BIM implementation on the quality, expected duration, and cost of BIM projects among small businesses was analyzed in [35,36], perspective on BIM utilization in budgeting and lifecycle related costs are presented in [37][38][39][40].…”

Construction 4.0 Organisational Level Challenges and Solutions

“…Consequently, digitalisation affects the entire value chain from business models to management systems [26]. In addition, I4 is also expected to lead to more sustainable production, with reduced material consumption and reduced waste [27][28][29], which is especially important for the CI. The main driving factors and barriers of I4 have been identified as human resources, organisation, management, market condition and competition, financial resources and profitability, productivity and efficiency, customer satisfaction and technological and process integration [29,30].…”