The dawn of the 21st century has seen the advent of many technologies targeting
commercial and financial sectors. These include Big Data, Internet of Things and FinTechs …

Although smart technologies associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution have the
potential to improve the performance of industries by optimizing work processes and …

The problems facing the construction industry have hindered the progress and the
development of this vital sector, particularly in developing countries. To investigate the …

The technological tools people use for designing buildings have progressed from drawings
to descriptive geometry, and from computer-aided drafting and design (CAD) to building …

Purpose Housing completions in the UK have fallen to 125,000 annually, while government
targets have risen to 300,000. This dramatic shortfall raises concerns as to whether current …

Abstract The European Union (EU) has developed policies aimed at accelerating the retrofit
of existing buildings, with the vision of a decarbonised building stock by 2050. Retrofitting of …

In this paper, we present a set of enabling technologies developed for the KUKA Innovation
Award to facilitate Human Robot collaboration targeted for the architecture, engineering and …

Maintaining quality in construction projects is paramount to project success, achieved
through techniques such as Total Quality Management (TQM). However, the key factors of …

Digital transformation (DT) is expected to contribute to the construction industry's ability to
meet climate and sustainable challenges and increase companies' productivity. This study …

Even with modern BIM software, design collaboration across disciplines for building
construction remains sequential and siloed. Cloud-based BIM (CBIM) proposes an …