Review: Identification of roadmap of fourth construction industrial revolution

S E N Lau,M Z Mohd Zain,A F Roslan,Z Abd Hamid,E Aminudin,C Chang Saar,R Zakaria,E Lou,N I A Abidin

doi:10.1088/1757-899x/615/1/012029

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/615/1/012029

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Abstract

Industrial revolution is a series of events driven by the growth of technological innovations, and so far, the world had witnessed the first three industrial revolutions. Today, a new revolution referred to as the fourth industrial revolution is entering even though it is still in its early stages of development. Many developed countries had established their own roadmap or strategic plan as a first step. However, only a few of them touched the construction sector even though the construction industry provides a significant contribution to the country’s GDP. Based on this understanding, there is a fundamental need to give a clear view of Industry 3.0 to Industry 4.0 from the construction industry’s perspective, since most users are still finding their way in this transition. An extensive literature review is used to define the scope and terms of the field of construction in the industrial revolution. Towards this goal, a clear definition and concept of each revolution, key technologies related to construction and challenges faced by the industry will be explored. Simultaneously, this review paper also benchmarked a few documents as a simple guide in the transition process to the fourth industrial revolution to avoid a lag in a world where changes are swift and sudden. Therefore, this review paper contributes by providing a better understanding of the challenges and trends in Construction 4.0 to academics and practitioners. Moreover, it will spark new ideas on the policy or strategic roadmap development in the future.

Highlights

Industrial revolution began across the earth, but it started in Europe, especially in Britain
Manufacturing, automobile, and banking are among the sectors that are advanced in terms of technologies and have tapped into the fourth industrial revolution by applying digitalization into their applications [2]
Muhuri, Shukla, & Abraham [8] stated that the critical elements in Industry 4.0 are cyber-physical systems (CPS), 3D printing, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), cloud computing, big data, data science etc

Summary

Introduction

Industrial revolution began across the earth, but it started in Europe, especially in Britain. Every country needs to develop its own policy or roadmap to support the rising technologies, especially in the sector of construction. A systematic search via two electronic databases, namely Web of Science and SCOPUS were used to identify and finalize the papers that are related to the key technologies and policy reports of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Construction 4.0. The combination of the string “and” and “or” in between each of these terms of “fourth industrial revolution,” “digitalization development,” “key technologies” and “Industry 4.0,” were used These advanced initial searches collectively resulted in the identification of several papers that might explain the properties and circumstances of the fourth industrial revolution towards the construction industry.

Theoretical background

A Roadmap for Industry

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