Emerging Construction Technologies: State of Standard and Regulation Implementation

Okpala, Ifeanyi; Nnaji, Chukwuma; Awolusi, Ibukun

doi:10.1061/9780784482438.020

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“…Although innovative solutions have great potential for improving productivity, efficiency, and safety through all stages of projects, previous studies highlight the conservative nature of the construction industry, which in turn creates resistance to change (Demirkesen & Tezel, 2021;Okpala et al, 2019), especially when the change involves a variation in pre-existing methods and re-engineering of basic work processes (Long & Spurlock, 2008). Technology change resistance may affect the individuals' willingness to accept new technologies and motivation to their use due to uncertainty surrounding the new processes and fear of unknown consequences (Cinite & Duxbury, 2018).…”

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“…However, non-compliances with OSH regulations are commonplace in construction. Regarding new safety technologies, there is no information relating to standards and government regulations for use, even in the US Okpala et al, 2019). The development of suitable guidelines is needed for their effective adoption for a wide range of construction activities (Pradhananga et al, 2021).…”

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Barriers to the Adoption of New Safety Technologies in Construction: A Developing Country Context

Yap

Lam

Skitmore

et al. 2022

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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The adoption rate of new technologies is still relatively low in the construction industry, particularly for mitigating occupational safety and health (OSH) risks, which is traditionally a largely labor-intensive activity in developing countries, occupying ill-afforded non-productive management resources. However, understanding why this is the case is a relatively unresearched area in developing countries such as Malaysia. In aiming to help redress this situation, this study explored the major barriers involved, firstly by a detailed literature review to identify the main barriers hampering the adoption of new technologies for safety science and management in construction. Then, a questionnaire survey of Malaysian construction practitioners was used to prioritize these barriers. A factor analysis further identified six major dimensions underlying the barriers, relating to the lack of OSH regulations and legislation, technological limitations, lack of genuine organizational commitment, prohibitive costs, poor safety culture within the construction industry, and privacy and data security concerns. Taken together, the findings provide a valuable reference to assist industry practitioners and researchers regarding the critical barriers to the adoption of new technologies for construction safety management in Malaysia and other similar developing countries, and bridge the identified knowledge gap concerning the dimensionality of the barriers.

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Barriers to the Adoption of New Safety Technologies in Construction: A Developing Country Context

Yap

Lam

Skitmore

et al. 2022

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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“…The lack of agreement amongst different countries on the regulation of IoT security presents the possibility of breaking the law as different data for the same purpose could be processed in different areas with different legislations and trying to reconcile the various laws could increase the complexity of the process. This lack of common law for IoT infrastructure could be attributed to the rapid development of IoT technology as legal bodies responsible for the regulation struggle to meet up with the legal problems of IoT technology [35,36,37]. According to Losavio et al (2018), data complexity, diversity and heterogeneity, size and validation, visualization, and identity management all pose challenges to the grasp of these rising data masses, as well as how legal rules map to technical execution.…”

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Privacy and security in the use of wearable internet of things for construction safety and health monitoring

Okonkwo

Awolusi

Nnaji

2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Due to the dynamic and complex nature of construction sites, the conventional method of construction safety monitoring which relies mainly on manual observation by inspectors is highly susceptible to human errors, is time-consuming, and is also becoming increasingly difficult to identify all incidents. Wearable Internet of Things (WIoT) in the construction industry creates a lot of opportunities for safety and health management such as identifying real-time locations of workers, body temperature, heart rate, stress level, and breathing rate, which can all be used to ensure that workers are always in safe environments and good health conditions. The use of WIoT for safety and health monitoring however presents research need on the privacy and security of the construction safety and health data collected, transmitted, and processed over the internet. This study examines the concept of privacy and security in WIoT, the security challenges, infrastructure requirements, and legal issues associated with WIoT. A review of privacy and security regulations for safety and health data is also presented in this paper. This study is expected to generate scientific information that can be used to develop an effective privacy and security framework to foster the adoption and implementation of IoT-based wearable sensing devices (WSDs) for safety and health monitoring in construction.

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“…Industrialized construction refers to a process which encourages intelligent manufacturing, and automation in construction (Qi et al 2020). Technologies such as Exoskeleton, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), Internet of Things (IoT), reality capture technologies, robotics, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are broadly spreading in construction industry recently (Okpala, Nnaji, & Awolusi 2019).…”

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An Assessment of skill and competency gaps in the construction industry: the case of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing workers

Prabhashwara¹,

Waidyasekara²,

Jayathilaka³

2022

15th International Research Conference - FARU 2022

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Most countries including Sri Lanka suffer from the skill and competency gap of labours in construction projects. Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) sectors are one of the main trades which takes maximum advantage of skilled labours. Although several researches have been conducted to find skills gap and labour shortage related to masonry work, carpentry, tiling, etc., few studies have been conducted related to MEP sector in the Sri Lankan construction industry. Hence, this paper focused on assessing skills gap and competency gap in MEP sector of Sri Lankan construction industry. Subsequent to the comprehensive literature review, questionnaire survey and expert interviews were carried out adopting mixed method approach, to analyze the skills gap. Quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed through mean weighted rating and manual content analysis respectively. The study revealed that learning, numerical, reading and writing are the skills which have highest skills gap while performing general physical activities, directing and training subordinates, and monitoring of activities have most competency gap. Enhancement of MEP related courses, improvement of training facilities, increment of awareness on MEP sector, and providing proper salaries can significantly address the current skills gap.

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Emerging Construction Technologies: State of Standard and Regulation Implementation

Cited by 13 publications

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Barriers to the Adoption of New Safety Technologies in Construction: A Developing Country Context

Barriers to the Adoption of New Safety Technologies in Construction: A Developing Country Context

Privacy and security in the use of wearable internet of things for construction safety and health monitoring

An Assessment of skill and competency gaps in the construction industry: the case of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing workers

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