Modelling construction 4.0 as a vaccine for ensuring construction supply chain resilience amid COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic came with a lot of stress, uncertainty and disruption for managing the construction supply chain (CSC). The disruption in return caused weak resilience of CSC activities. Unfortunately, the existing models for managing CSC focus on preparedness and recovery while neglecting the visibility perspective of resilience CSC. Towards creating a resilience CSC, this study modelled construction 4.0 as the vaccine for supply chain resilience in the construction industry. Design/methodology/approach A survey questionnaire was used to collect data randomly from construction stakeholders. The questionnaire was analysed with a structural equation model analysis using SmartPLS while conducting tests such as path coefficient analysis, discriminant analysis and importance-performance analysis. Findings This study discovered that construction 4.0 is a significant tool and vaccine for ensuring visibility, recovery and adaptation within the supply chain. Construction 4.0 will function as a vaccine for ensuring resilience because of its capacity to optimise CSC management by introducing an evidence-based management approach and less dependent on implicit knowledge. Towards reaping the full potential of construction 4.0, it should be adopted as a moderating variable. Research limitations/implications The research is limited by the use of a single methodology (quantitative) without including a qualitative method to understand better and explore the impact of construction 4.0 on CSC resilience. The qualitative part can be carried out by conducting interviews targeted at construction stakeholders. Practical implications In spite of the limitations, the findings of this study contributed to building a more responsive and resilient CSC during the pandemic period. Furthermore, this study also presented the crucial construction 4.0 technology capable of ensuring resilience within the CSC. Originality/value This paper presents a model for applying construction 4.0 as a vaccine for ensuring CSC resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic period. This study contributed to ensuring that decisions made within the CSC adopt an evidence-based approach.

Project Performance in the Global Construction Industry during the Covid-19 Era

“…The remaining five articles reviewed in this paper focused on identifying strategies that construction firms could implement to quickly recover from the negative effects of the global pandemic and to strengthen their resilience against future disruptions in the global economy due to another pandemic or any other unexpected phenomenon. All five articles sought the opinion of construction stakeholders from different parts of the world who all identified wholescale adoption of digitisation technologies as a means of 'future-proofing' the global construction industry against unexpected macro disruptions as these technologies would help management become more efficient, effective and agile going forward Ogunnusi et al, 2021;Gamil et al, 2022;Osunsanmi et al, 2022;Stride et al, 2023). The Covid-19 pandemic has forced construction firms to take more closer attention to issues of worker health and safety, and stakeholders felt that institutionalizing more robust and holistic health (including mental health) and safety protocol would be a sustainable strategy for ensuring improved worker productivity and effectiveness as economies continue to recover from the negative effects of the global pandemic Gamil et al, 2022;Ogunnusi et al, 2021;Stride et al, 2023).…”

Construction 4.0 technologies in a developing economy: awareness, adoption readiness and challenges

“…The few research endeavours in developing countries, most notably South Africa, on the concept of Construction 4.0 have been largely on willingness to adopt Construction 4.0 technologies for construction projects (Osunsanmi et al, 2020). Although Osunsanmi et al (2021) modelled Construction 4.0 as a vaccine for ensuring construction supply chain resilience amid COVID-19 pandemic, there are still much research gap that has not been explored in other developing countries such as Nigeria. The economy of Nigeria is a middle-income, mixed economy and emerging market with a debt-to-GDP ratio of 16.08% as of 2019 USAID (2017).…”

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“…It enhances the traditional processes with the help of innovative technologies and collaboration methods to redesign the industry. Construction 4.0 demands the alteration of the AEC industry's work items and sequences towards Industry 4.0 (García de Soto et al, 2019;Osunsanmi et al, 2020;Osunsanmi et al, 2022). In addition, Construction 4.0 is a stage to employ digitalization in AEC which consists of building information modelling (BIM), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, robotics and their integrated applications on construction.…”