TY - GEN
T1 - Towards the Use of Smart Wearables for Construction Project Delivery
T2 - 46th Australasian Universities Building Education Association Conference, AUBEA 2023
AU - Ikuabe, Matthew
AU - Aigbavboa, Clinton
AU - Adekunle, Samuel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - One of the fallouts of the covid-19 pandemic in the construction industry is the urgent need for a redirection towards the uptake of innovative technologies for project delivery. Implementing these technologies potentially would have helped abate some of the encumbrances faced by the construction industry during the pandemic. Hence, this study presents the outcome of evaluating the benefits of using smart wearables in the delivery of construction projects in the post-covid-19 era. The study employed a quantitative technique that elicited responses from the target respondents, who were purposively sampled, using a questionnaire as the instrument for data collection. The retrieved data were analysed using mean item score, standard deviation, and one-sample t-test. Results from the analysis indicate that the most significant benefits of using smart wearables for construction project execution are improvement in efficiency and productivity, enhancing the safety of workers, and remote supervision and technical support of construction works. The study’s outcome contributes to the propagation of the need for implementing innovative technologies for the execution of construction projects. Furthermore, it opens a new vista on the deliberation on the uptake of innovative technologies for construction projects as ‘armour’ for future scenarios like covid-19 pandemic.
AB - One of the fallouts of the covid-19 pandemic in the construction industry is the urgent need for a redirection towards the uptake of innovative technologies for project delivery. Implementing these technologies potentially would have helped abate some of the encumbrances faced by the construction industry during the pandemic. Hence, this study presents the outcome of evaluating the benefits of using smart wearables in the delivery of construction projects in the post-covid-19 era. The study employed a quantitative technique that elicited responses from the target respondents, who were purposively sampled, using a questionnaire as the instrument for data collection. The retrieved data were analysed using mean item score, standard deviation, and one-sample t-test. Results from the analysis indicate that the most significant benefits of using smart wearables for construction project execution are improvement in efficiency and productivity, enhancing the safety of workers, and remote supervision and technical support of construction works. The study’s outcome contributes to the propagation of the need for implementing innovative technologies for the execution of construction projects. Furthermore, it opens a new vista on the deliberation on the uptake of innovative technologies for construction projects as ‘armour’ for future scenarios like covid-19 pandemic.
KW - Construction
KW - Covid-19
KW - Innovative technologies
KW - Smart wearables
KW - South Africa
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105017370480
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-96-2802-5_19
DO - 10.1007/978-981-96-2802-5_19
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105017370480
SN - 9789819628018
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 243
EP - 250
BT - Creating Capacity and Capability
A2 - Jelodar, Mostafa Babaeian
A2 - Lovreglio, Ruggiero
A2 - Feng, Zhenan
A2 - Paes, Daniel
A2 - Kumar, Vishal
A2 - Siriwardana, Chandana
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 26 November 2023 through 28 November 2023
ER -
