Value Stream Mapping of Project Lifecycle Data for Circular Construction

Nik-Bakht, Mazdak; An, Chunjiang; Mohamed, Ouf; Hafeez, Ghazanfarah; Dziedzic, Rebecca; Han, Sang Hyeok; Eicker, Ursula; Hammad, Amin; Moselhi, Osama

doi:10.22260/isarc2021/0139

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“…Lack of commitment from stakeholders: A significant obstacle remains the absence of stakeholder cooperation and communication [3,18,22]. Furthermore, gathering projectrelated data to support circular construction is challenging as the industry is so dispersed [3,16]. The inability of many stakeholders to collect, handle, share, and manage data regarding building materials and recognise information's worth in embracing circular principles is an additional barrier to data management [27].…”

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“…Furthermore, there is still a lack of technology applications focused on CE due to the shortage of comprehensive databases [7,24]. It is challenging to gather project life cycle data to support circular construction [16]. Ref.…”

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“…The building and construction sector uses a great deal of materials that are created and operated in a linear economy [15]. The majority of pre-existing buildings and civil infrastructure adhere to the conventional cradle-to-grave paradigm and are not generally intended to be "deconstructed" or "disassembled" to eventually enable the reuse or recycling of their materials, subsystems, or components [16]. Hence, a comprehensive redesign of systems, processes, and products is required to achieve the ideal economy.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Digital technologies are revolutionising the value of co-creation and collaboration beyond historical industry boundaries, with the potential to significantly impact the construction industry's ability to realise the importance of applying circular economy principles [2][3][4]6,9,14,16,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. Advanced digital tools are being implemented across industries, owing to the boost given by the fourth industrial revolution [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, integrating DTs that help transition to CE is challenging for construction companies and other vital stakeholders [1]. Switching from a linear to a circular flow for materials and components will require significant contributions from various stakeholders [16,19]. Furthermore, ref.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Barriers to Adopting Digital Technologies to Implement Circular Economy Practices in the Construction Industry: A Systematic Literature Review

Thirumal,

Udawatta,

Karunasena

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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The construction industry is a resource- and energy-intensive sector, and, thus, it has been criticised due to rising environmental concerns. As a result, it has gained heightened interest in the concept of the circular economy (CE) over the last decade due to its ability to promote the slowing, reducing, and closing production and consumption cycles of materials and products used in construction projects. Current research studies suggest that digital technologies may enhance the construction industry’s ability to integrate the concept of CE into its practices. However, a clear understanding of digital technology (DT)-related barriers that hinder practical implementation of CE appears to be lacking within the sector. Thus, this study aims to identify the barriers to adopting DTs to implement CE practices in the construction industry. A systematic literature review was conducted by reviewing twenty-eight (28) relevant papers published until March 2024 in the Scopus and Web of Science databases. The VOS viewer software (version 1.6.11) was used to perform a co-occurrence analysis of keywords to identify new and popular study areas in the field. The content analysis was used to analyse the significant barriers to adapting DTs to implement CE in the construction industry; frequency and Pareto analyses were used to determine the most critical obstacles. This study identified thirty-seven (37) barriers to using DTs to implement CE, categorised into nine areas: organisational, infrastructure, regulatory, standardisation, investment, nature of the construction industry, technological, stakeholder, and data-related barriers. Of these thirty-seven barriers, nineteen were identified as critical barriers based on Pareto analysis. These findings will benefit construction practitioners and policymakers who want to adopt DTs to integrate CE practices in the construction industry.

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Research Streams of Barriers to Digital Transformation: Mapping Current State and Future Directions

Brink,

Paul,

Packmohr

2024

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Digital Transformation (DT) strives to alter an entity by substantially changing its characteristics facilitated by integrating digital technologies. Albeit numerous barriers hinder the realization of its potential. Barriers are subject to scientific research. Generally, scientific works result in research streams. The existing literature already examines the DT streams. Although these works make an essential contribution, they cannot sufficiently explore the field of barriers. Keeping track of the concepts and themes in a growing research field is challenging. Therefore, the aims of this mapping study are (1) to show which domain-specific research streams are explicitly dealing with the DT barriers, (2) to highlight which topics research currently addresses, and (3) which topics should be investigated in the future. Combining elements of a bibliometric analysis with a systematic literature review, we mapped nine different streams based on 203 publications. The results indicate that much research focuses on industrial companies or sectors but needs an overarching perspective. Also, many studies are only concerned with identifying the barriers, while systematic approaches to overcoming them still need to be developed.

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