Towards a Canvas for Construction 4.0 Implementation in AECO Organizations

Abstract

Construction 4.0 has been steadily reshaping the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO) industry, especially as the industry transitions to a post-pandemic world. With the wave of technologies, tools, and principles that Construction 4.0 offers, organizations have been altering the ways they conduct their business and complete their projects. To succeful complete these changes, it becomes important to understand Construction 4.0 in order to develop a proper implementation vision that organizations can build on. Thus, this study proposes a five-step roadmap to develop a canvas that builds on existing readiness and maturity models to provide organizations with successful Construction 4.0 implementation practices across six distinct dimensions: people, environment, approaches, resources, leadership, and strategy (PEARLS). The proposed canvas is called “Construction 4.0 Implementation Canvas” or “ConIC 4.0”. This paper presents preliminary results for the first three steps of the roadmap based on the existing research corpus. Findings will be validated with subject-matter experts in a future study that expands on the findings and presents the complete canvas.