Sustainable Construction Technology Adoption

2019 ◽  
pp. 299-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loosemore Martin ◽  
Forsythe Perry
Keyword(s):  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Construction Technology

scholarly journals Overview of The Sustainable Technology System about Rural Residential Construction

2021 ◽  
Vol 237 ◽  
pp. 04001
Author(s):  
Ling Yuan ◽  
Xiaohui Liu ◽  
lisha Wang ◽  
Xianming Huang
Keyword(s):  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Residential Construction ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Technology System ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
Basic Characteristics

This paper is based on the national key R&D project of China during the 13th Five-Year Plan—“Research On The Construction Technology System of Green Livable Rural Residential Buildings” (2018YFD1100205). Based on the quantitative analysis and systematic sorting of the research journals on sustainable rural residential construction, this paper summarizes the research progress and development trend of sustainable rural residential construction, analyzes the basic characteristics and common problems of rural residential construction in China at present, and proposes a sustainable construction strategy and research system according to local conditions.

Application of Green Construction Techniques in Public Buildings: A Case of the Medicine Building in Nanjing Pukou Central Hospital

2011 ◽  
Vol 374-377 ◽  
pp. 178-182
Author(s):  
Shen Ju Zhang ◽  
Jian Li ◽  
Xin Gang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Energy Conservation ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
Central Hospital ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
Building Technology ◽  
Green Construction ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
High Efficient

The green building is one important way to develop the energy conservation work. The green construction technology surmounts in the tradition building technology, paying great attention to energy conservation, low consumption and high efficient and environmental protection. The green construction technology is the sustainable construction method. This paper takes the medicine building in Nanjing Pukou Central hospital as an example to analyze the characteristics of the green construction techniques and study the application of the techniques in public buildings.

scholarly journals Construction Technology Adoption Cube: An Investigation on Process, Factors, Barriers, Drivers, and Decision Makers using NVivo and AHP Analysis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samad Sepasgozar ◽  
Steven Davis
Keyword(s):  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Tunnel Boring Machine ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Process Factors ◽  
Project Objectives

Due to the complexity, high-risk, and conservative character of construction companies, advanced digital technologies do not become widely adopted in the short term, while vendors make determined efforts to overcome this and disseminate their technologies. This paper presents the methods of an investigation addressing the extremely complex issues related to the current practices of digital technology adoption in construction. It discusses how construction companies follow a specific logical process linked to need, project objectives, characteristics of the adopting organization, and the characteristics of the new technology to be adopted. The study aims to demonstrate a novel method of data collection and analysis including data and methodological triangulation techniques including the use of NVivo and AHP to explore how companies make the decision to uptake a new technology (e.g. advanced crane, tunnel boring machine or drones) by focusing on customer and vendor activities, their interactions, contributing factors, and people involved in the process. The major original contribution of this paper is to develop an innovative methodological Cube for investigating the Construction Technology Adoption Process (CTAP) covering technology adoption, acceptance, diffusion and implementation concepts. CTAP is a framework that delineates the phases of the process that customer organizations use when deciding to adopt a new digital technology and the parallel vendor activities. The significance of these contributions is that they enable vendors to understand how to match their strategies with customer expectations in each phase of the CTAP. It also provides a benchmark for new construction companies to use the current best practice of decision making. Future research is warranted to more clearly delineate any differences with developing nations or related industries such as mining and property management.

Sustainable Construction Technology Based on Building Modules

2014 ◽  
Vol 1041 ◽  
pp. 231-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mária Kozlovská ◽  
Pavol Kaleja ◽  
Zuzana Struková
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Method ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
Modular Construction ◽  
Construction Methods ◽  
House Construction ◽  
Traditional Construction ◽  
Family House ◽  
Bearing Structure

The aim of the paper is to demonstrate the widely presented benefits of modular construction as compared with traditional construction method. A case study of family house construction by modular building method and traditional method is used to examine the structural, economic and time indicators of individual construction methods. The results are presented in tabular and graphical outputs and are compared each other in regard to different technological parts of the building. The paper provides the comparison of economic and time indicators resulting from budgets and time schedules of construction that are executed for different variants. Such comparison demonstrates exactly the benefits of modular construction. The building based on building modules consisted of steel bearing structure and enveloped by sandwich panels is adopted as the selected modular construction technology. The different variant, applied for comparison of modular and traditional construction, is represented by the building with comparable thermo-technical characteristics, constructed by traditional masonry method.

scholarly journals Elements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the Production of Wood Buildings

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-368
Author(s):  
Jozef Švajlenka ◽  
Mária Kozlovská
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Solid Wood ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Industrial Building ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
Glued Laminated Timber ◽  
Efficient Construction ◽  
Timber Products

We are on the threshold of a technological revolution that fundamentally changes the way we live, work and communicate with each other. To some extent, scale and complexity, this transformation will be as fundamental to humanity as no other technological change in the past. We do not know how it will evolve, but one thing is clear: the response to it must be integrated and comprehensive, involving all stakeholders on a global basis, from the public to the private sector, to the academic community and to civil society. In the context of sustainable and efficient construction, traditional material bases such as wood are becoming increasingly prevalent and implemented in modern design processes and design solutions. The great potential of this building material is achieved due to developments in production as well as the actual construction of timber buildings. Possible ways of production and construction of wooden buildings are diverse. Especially through prefabricated and solid wood products, which are also cross-glued laminated timber products, modern timber construction represents an interesting and sustainable construction technology. The aim of this paper is to define the basic aspects of industrial building industry in the context of new trends and to introduce the possibilities of implementation of elements of industry 4.0 in the field of wood-based construction.

scholarly journals Digital Construction Technology and Job-site Equipment Demonstration: Modelling Relationship Strategies for Technology Adoption

Buildings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sepasgozar ◽  
Davis
Keyword(s):  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
Clustering Techniques ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Technology Market ◽  
Technology Demonstration ◽  
Job Site

The construction technology market is competitive and complicated, due to the high-risk of digital technology utilisation in construction projects and the conservative character of construction companies. This complexity affects the process of job-site technology dissemination and adoption in which construction companies make decisions to purchase and utilise the new technology. The complexity is one of the reasons that many new remote technologies, positioning and locating systems, lasers and drones, 3D printing, and robots are not widely adopted in the short term, despite vendors making determined efforts to overcome this. Three objectives are investigated in this paper: (i) to define criteria for examining patterns of vendors’ strategies to support technology adoption; (ii) to present fact-based evidence of different vendors’ demonstration methods; and (iii) to present examples of different technology groups based on their required strategies. This paper presents the results of a longitudinal investigation of the construction technology market, including patterns of technology demonstration and a conceptual model of classifying vendors and their technologies in construction market places. The model involves the three most important factors that distinguish technology exhibitors: Physical appearance, Interpersonal relationship and Technology demonstration. Data was collected from technology exhibitions, involving randomly selected vendors. This data was analysed using hierarchical and c-means clustering techniques. The hard-clustering techniques resulted in vendors being placed in five classes based on the elements of the PIT framework. Fuzzy analysis shows how these classes fit into an underlying strategy spectrum. Understanding the strategies used in each class enables new vendors to select their own dissemination strategies based on their own particular circumstances. The practical implication of this study is to present a set of dissemination strategies to new technology stakeholders involved in Industry 4.0. The identified patterns of technology vendor strategies and the novel conceptual model contribute to the body of knowledge in technology diffusion.

Conceptualising information and equipment technology adoption in construction

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samad M. E. Sepasgozar ◽  
Martin Loosemore ◽  
Steven R. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a critical review of research in information and equipment technology adoption in the construction industry. The study also aims to formulate a conceptual framework of the different stages in the adoption process identify gaps in the existing literature and to provide a holistic picture of contemporary research in technology adoption in construction research literature. Design/methodology/approach – A generic framework is initially proposed containing the fundamental concepts of “pre-adoption”, “adoption” and “post-adoption”. The review separates the literature according to three key perspectives: “socio-economic”; “managerial”; and “psychological”. The applicability of the existing approaches to the construction context is discussed, and then a new conceptual framework for construction is developed. Findings – Significant gaps in the understanding of construction technology adoption are identified that provide an interesting agenda for future research. A Construction Technology Adoption Framework is presented, which draws together all of sub-processes involved in technology adoption. This framework covers key activities of both the vendor and the customer. Research limitations/implications – The study has been restricted to information technologies and construction equipment technology. Other construction technologies, such as formwork systems, have not been examined. Practical implications – The new framework provides a direction for research into the technology adoption process including key sub-processes and potential research areas. The framework also assists vendors to influence customers’ decision-making processes, and guides new customers in setting up their own decision procedures. Originality/value – This paper departs from earlier research by focusing on information and equipment technology adoption rather than innovation adoption in general. In addition, this paper considers both sides of the adoption equation (vendor and customer), which is in contrast to previous binary studies which considered one side or the other. It delineates the boundaries of different concepts such as diffusion, adoption, acceptance and implementation, which have been interchangeably used in previous studies. This paper introduces the concept of dissemination to construction, which has previously been investigated in other industries.

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