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Construction 4.0: a survey of research trends

Nathalie Perrier, Aristide Bled, Mario Bourgault, Nolwenn Cousin, Christophe Danjou, Robert Pellerin and Thibaut Roland

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The fourth industrial revolution, called Industry 4.0, is transforming decision-making through the increasing use of information and digitization technologies. While Industry 4.0 is expanding rapidly in manufacturing industries, its induced transformations are gradually affecting other sectors, including the construction industry. In recent years, the use of 4.0 technologies in the construction industry, termed as ‘Construction 4.0’, has increased, mostly due to the immense potential of Industry 4.0 for improving the performance of construction projects and structuring their underlying management processes. This paper proposes a classification of existing literature on applications of Construction 4.0 technologies to allow for a better analysis of trends and gaps in the research. A total of nearly 200 research papers between 2009 and 2020 were reviewed and analyzed. Overall, the analysis shows that research on Construction 4.0 is closely aligned with the construction phase. Also, the most researched topics seem to be related to the management processes of quality, risk, and health and safety.

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Subjects: 1600 Industrial engineering > 1600 Industrial engineering
Department: Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering
Funders: Pomerleau Industrial Research Chair in Innovation and Construction Project Governance, Jarislowsky / SNC-Lavalin Research Chair in the Management of International Projects
PolyPublie URL: https://publications.polymtl.ca/9463/
Journal Title: Journal of Information Technology in Construction (vol. 25)
Publisher: ITcon
DOI: 10.36680/j.itcon.2020.024
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.36680/j.itcon.2020.024
Date Deposited: 16 Aug 2023 14:43
Last Modified: 10 Apr 2025 19:08
Cite in APA 7: Perrier, N., Bled, A., Bourgault, M., Cousin, N., Danjou, C., Pellerin, R., & Roland, T. (2020). Construction 4.0: a survey of research trends. Journal of Information Technology in Construction, 25, 416-437. https://doi.org/10.36680/j.itcon.2020.024

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