Towards Digitizing the Construction Industry: State of the Art of Construction 4.0

Abstract

Having a significant economic impact in country's GDP and being a major workforce, construction industry is yet characterized by low production rate, low technological advancement, minimum automation and robotic usage, and so on. With the visionary idea of Industry 4.0 that focuses on digitization of the value chain of a product and improving productivity through a variety of technologies and automated manufacturing environment, this research aims to develop a framework to adopt Construction 4.0 within a construction company. Current state of the art of the technologies in construction associated with the notion of Industry 4.0 (e.g., Building Information Modelling, virtual reality, augmented reality, Drone, etc.) is explored through extensive literature studies. The proposed framework incorporates current technological advancement related to construction industry, legislative requirements, barriers, enterprise transformation requirements and so on. Construction 4.0 would make a great impact in construction industry through improved value chain of construction projects, productivity improvement, and safe and sustainable construction. Indeed, the proposed framework would contribute to the advancement of new knowledge in the worlds' construction companies and provide potentials of new research focuses.

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

“…The fundamental design principles of construction 4.0 are information transparency, decentralized decision making, seamless information flow, technical assistance through robotics and automation, and interconnectivity and interoperability among these applied technologies (Hossain and Nadeem, 2019). In this paper, the possibility of these design principles aligned to construction project management is discussed through the people, process, and technology framework.…”

Industry 4.0 and Smart cities: State-of-the-art

“…Describes smart city development 2017 [24], [25], [31], [32],[41] Smart city 2.0 Describes future of smart cities 2019 [40], [42], [43], [45], [50], [52] Industry 4.0 in smart city Describes integration of industry 4.0 in smart city 2018 [24], [27], [28], [30], [26] Smart city development Describes the smart city 2018 [3], [5], [9],[10] Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 introduction 2018 [17], [19], [20], [23], [33], [35], [36] Smart city 2.0 Describes new features of smart city 2.0 2019 [53], [54], [56], [59], [37] Industry 4.0 features Describes new features of industry 4.0 2019 [61], [62], [64] Architecture of Smart city 2.0 Describes newest architecture of smart city 2.0 2020 [46], [47], [48], [49]…”

“…At the focal point of this vision will be the processing plant, which will adjust the way creation is performed [18]. It won't be simply digital physical systems such as keen hardware that will be smart; the items being gathered will likewise have insight of the goal that can be recognized all through the assembling procedure [19]. The vision held is that the installed frameworks are coordinated with the vertical business forms, (deals, coordination, and funds, among others) and related IT frameworks.…”

Assessing knowledge and skills gap for construction 4.0 in a developing economy

“…This further shows a great prospect to the developing countries especially in Africa as the transition to a digital economy is prescribed as a means of catching‐up with the developed nations (Asongu & Odhiambo, 2019). By adopting and exploring the benefits of these new technologies such as Building Information Modelling, 3D scanning, augmented reality, drones, automation and robotics, the construction industry can boost its productivity(Hossain & Nadeem, 2019; Maskuriy et al, 2019; WEF, 2016). For instance, a survey revealed that a complete digitalization in non‐residential construction can achieve an annual global cost savings of $0.3–0.5 trillion (10–17%) for operations and $0.7–1.2 trillion (13–21%) for engineering and construction (WEF, 2016).…”