TY - GEN
T1 - Unravelling the State of the Art of Blockchain Development for Improved Infrastructure Delivery in the Built Environment
T2 - 19th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, ICCCBE 2022
AU - Tjebane, Motheo Meta
AU - Musonda, Innocent
AU - Onososen, Adetayo
AU - Ramabodu, Molusiwa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Information management is critical to the smooth operation of infrastructure delivery. It is the process of gathering, storing, distributing, archiving, and deleting/destroying data. Information and data management are critical to decision-making toward achieving improved, resilient, and responsive infrastructure delivery. While innovative tools abound for managing information in the built sector, barriers such as technical challenges, expertise needed, and cost of procurement inhibit the adoption of these technologies. In contrast, blockchain offers opportunities for accessibility, lighter and faster transaction speed, and secured data processing. However, research in this area is limited and slowly emerging. Therefore, this study adopts a bibliometric review to avail current progress, critical discussions, and vital strategies to advance the adoption of Blockchain development in the construction industry. Blockchain has emerged as important to built environment innovation discourses with energy management, payment processing, documentation, and asset lifecycle management opportunities. This study is therefore important in improving extant studies and availing future directions. This paper uses bibliometric analysis to examine blockchain as a tool for infrastructure delivery in the built environment. Empirical data from Scopus was analysed to establish the publication and citation pattern, specifically publications published between 2011 and 2021. This also identifies research trends, common gaps, and best practices among researchers who use Vosviewer. The most influential authors, institutions, journals, countries, and cooperation networks are then identified. This study presents the relevance of blockchain in the built environment and its movement, adoption, and adaptation, which further enables the spark of innovative ideas to realize and comprehend the current and future technological transformation in infrastructure delivery.
AB - Information management is critical to the smooth operation of infrastructure delivery. It is the process of gathering, storing, distributing, archiving, and deleting/destroying data. Information and data management are critical to decision-making toward achieving improved, resilient, and responsive infrastructure delivery. While innovative tools abound for managing information in the built sector, barriers such as technical challenges, expertise needed, and cost of procurement inhibit the adoption of these technologies. In contrast, blockchain offers opportunities for accessibility, lighter and faster transaction speed, and secured data processing. However, research in this area is limited and slowly emerging. Therefore, this study adopts a bibliometric review to avail current progress, critical discussions, and vital strategies to advance the adoption of Blockchain development in the construction industry. Blockchain has emerged as important to built environment innovation discourses with energy management, payment processing, documentation, and asset lifecycle management opportunities. This study is therefore important in improving extant studies and availing future directions. This paper uses bibliometric analysis to examine blockchain as a tool for infrastructure delivery in the built environment. Empirical data from Scopus was analysed to establish the publication and citation pattern, specifically publications published between 2011 and 2021. This also identifies research trends, common gaps, and best practices among researchers who use Vosviewer. The most influential authors, institutions, journals, countries, and cooperation networks are then identified. This study presents the relevance of blockchain in the built environment and its movement, adoption, and adaptation, which further enables the spark of innovative ideas to realize and comprehend the current and future technological transformation in infrastructure delivery.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Built Environment
KW - Infrastructure
KW - Resilient
KW - Responsive
KW - State of the art
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85171541668&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-32515-1_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-32515-1_3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85171541668
SN - 9783031325144
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 27
EP - 41
BT - Advances in Information Technology in Civil and Building Engineering - Proceedings of ICCCBE 2022 - Volume 2
A2 - Skatulla, Sebastian
A2 - Beushausen, Hans
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 26 October 2022 through 28 October 2022
ER -
