Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hao Lu, Qin Zhang, Qinghong Cui, Yuanyuan Luo, Pardis Pishdad-Bozorgi, Xiancun Hu
Summary: This study used data from 31 regions to investigate the impact of ICT progress on construction labor productivity (CLP) and found that information technology progress has a significant contribution to CLP growth. The key factors affecting the change of CLP were identified as human resources, research and development (R&D) investment, and ICT level.
Review
Construction & Building Technology
Ming Zhang, Rui Xu, Haitao Wu, Jia Pan, Xiaowei Luo
Summary: The rapid development of robotic technology enables human-robot collaboration (HRC) in the construction industry. HRC systems combining robot intelligence and human skills can enhance productivity and safety. However, research on the status, challenges, and emerging trends of HRC in construction is limited. This systematic review of 110 relevant articles provides insights into HRC, including quantitative analysis of robot types, construction activities, and interaction roles, and identifies significant research themes in adaptive robot programming, human-robot interaction interface, and safety issues.
AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Wei Zhang, Siqi Zhao, Xiaoyu Wan, Yuan Yao
Summary: The study shows that the development level of China's digital economy is increasing year by year, with significant growth in digital infrastructure and relatively slow development in the digital industry. Digital infrastructure, digital industry, and digital integration all have significant positive effects on regional total factor productivity, with technological progress playing a mediating role between the digital economy and high-quality economic development.
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Emmanuel Dhyne, Jozef Konings, Jeroen Van den Bosch, Stijn Vanormelingen
Summary: This paper uses a new microdata set of business-to-business firm-level transactions in Belgium to analyze the impact of ICT on productivity. It finds that although ICT investment has substantial returns at the firm level, the returns are much lower at the aggregate level due to underinvestment in ICT and misallocation of investments.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Construction & Building Technology
Catherine Trask, Henrik CJ. Linderoth
Summary: There has been rapid development in digital Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) interventions in the construction industry, but it is uncertain whether they reduce the risk of injury and illness. This systematic mapping review provides an overview of the current evidence and offers recommendations for practitioners and researchers. The majority of studies focused on technology development and provided little to no evidence of improved work conditions or reduced injury/illness among construction workers. More evidence is needed before digital solutions can be widely promoted, and the conflicting logics between the evidence maturity framework and the project logic in construction practice should be addressed.
JOURNAL OF BUILDING ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Lynn M. Hulse, Steven Deere, Edwin R. Galea
Summary: Between 500 and 600 construction site fires occur each year in the UK, although the actual number may be higher. Workers generally knew the correct procedures to follow in case of a fire emergency, but actual evacuation rates were not as high as expected.
Article
Economics
Shoude Li, Tong Fu
Summary: This paper develops a dynamic analysis model to investigate the relationship between abatement technology innovation, worker productivity, and firm profitability. The main results show that improving abatement technology can enhance worker productivity and firm profitability, and government regulations are more effective in promoting these outcomes compared to firm decisions.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Iliyasu Abdullahi, Casey Watters, Georgios Kapogiannis, Michal K. Lemanski
Summary: This study investigates the potential of digital construction to enhance project managers' planning competence in dealing with complexities of mega construction projects. The results show that digital construction equips project managers with enhanced capabilities to efficiently coordinate and allocate resources, but managing multiple stakeholders remains a challenge.
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Chao-Lung Yang, Hendrik Tampubolon, Aji Setyoko, Kai-Lung Hua, Mohammad Tanveer, Wei Wei
Summary: A framework of skeleton-based pervasive healthcare monitoring was proposed in this study, which employs secure edge-fog-cloud computing to manage computation and storage resources, address latency, cyber-attack, and privacy-preserving concerns. Experimental results demonstrate that the framework performs well compared to other methods on the dataset and exhibits better computation performance in terms of frame per second.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Daeyoun Won, Bon-Gang Hwang, Nur Khairunnisa Binte Mohd Samion
Summary: This study aims to examine the drivers, challenges, and strategies for cloud computing adoption in the construction industry. Through literature review and questionnaire survey, the study identifies the potential and starting point for sustainable development of cloud computing in the industry, and provides recommendations for its adoption.
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT IN ENGINEERING
(2022)
Review
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Liliana Rodriguez-Vizzuett, Ismael E. Espinosa-Curiel, Humberto Perez-Espinosa
Summary: This article reviews the current technologies that support remote communication between dogs and humans. Wearable devices equipped with sensors are the most widely used technology for dogs to generate messages, while wearable devices with vibrotactile actuators are commonly used for dogs to receive messages. Most of the proposals focus on one-way communication, and those with bidirectional communication mainly use video chats. Pilot studies have shown positive feasibility results. Although remote human-dog interaction technology holds promise, more research is needed to assess usability, efficacy, and incorporate new technological developments.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Leilasadat Mirghaderi, Monika Sziron, Elisabeth Hildt
Summary: This study investigates how participants perceive and interact with commercial virtual assistants, revealing that the lack of humanlike characteristics in current virtual assistants prevents users from forming emotional attachment to them, although users expect more humanlike attributes in future virtual assistants.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Wonil Lee, Ken-Yu Lin, Peter W. Johnson, Edmund Y. W. Seto
Summary: This study identified the most relevant variables for measuring occupational fatigue among entry-level construction workers by using wearable sensor technologies such as heart rate variability and NN interval standard deviation. The log-transformed LF obtained using AR analysis is preferred for daily fatigue management, while the standard deviation of NN intervals is useful for weekly fatigue management.
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Meiling Wang, Conghui Zhu, Xinyu Wang, Vincent Sarkodie Ntim, Xiuyan Liu
Summary: Information and communication technology (ICT) supported by the Internet and mobile phone usage has a significant impact on the intelligent development of the green economy in countries along the Belt and Road (B & R). However, the influence of ICT and electricity consumption on green total factor productivity (GTFP) varies across different income levels of economies in B & R countries. Improving ICT infrastructure and promoting the efficiency of green energy use are crucial for enhancing GTFP in these countries.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Yang Zhang, Tengyu Wang, Ka-Veng Yuen
Summary: This study proposes a framework for construction site information management using blockchain and smart contracts to solve the issues of forged and modified engineering data. The system can dynamically deploy new smart contracts, expand scenario services, and extend data analysis functions to the terminal, integrating different data analysis algorithms. The design ensures security and stability by using a distributed federation architecture to prevent data tampering.
COMPUTER-AIDED CIVIL AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING
(2022)
