Ebook: CONSTRUCTION 4.0 An Innovation Platform for the Built Environment

With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and the resulting framework of
Industry 4.0 (I4.0) (MacDougall, 2014), the built environment sector also has the opportunity
to leapfrog to more efficient production, business models, and value chains. Such a transformation is possible through the convergence of existing and emerging technologies that
form part of the Industry 4.0 paradigm (Oesterreich and Teuteberg, 2016). This transformative
framework is called the Construction 4.0 framework in this handbook. Modelled after the
concept of Industry 4.0, the idea of Construction 4.0 is based on a confluence of trends and
technologies (both digital and physical) that promise to reshape the way built environment
assets are designed and constructed.