“…However, lessons learned so far indicate that the construction sector is facing several major issues. It has generally been considered a traditional sector with low productivity (Ma and Liu, 2016;Ghodrati, et al, 2018;Hasan, et al, 2018;Xiong, Newton and Skitmore, 2019), especially the lowest productivity gains over the last decades (Deloitte, 2019), high staff turnover (Ayodele, Chang-Richards and González, 2020), skills shortages (Chang-Richards, et al, 2017;Kim, Chang and Castro-Lacouture, 2020), loss and lack of collaboration among partners (Deep, Gajendran and Jefferies, 2019), and slow adoption of digital technologies and innovation (Chancellor, Abbott and Carson, 2015;Delgado, et al, 2019;Olanipekun and Sutrisna, 2021). The construction sector is also susceptible to economic fluctuations (Ercan, 2019).…”