TY  - CONF
TI  - Assessing Social, Technical, and Operational Maturity Dimensions for Digital Transformation in the Construction Phase
C1  - Auckland, New Zealand
C3  - Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 32)
SP  - 1232
EP  - 1243
PY  - 2024
DO  - 10.24928/2024/0214
AU  - Fernandes, Luara L. A.
AU  - Hastak, Makarand
AU  - Costa, Dayana B.
AD  - PhD Candidate in Civil Engineering, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. Visiting Scholar, Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States. E-mail: luara.fernandes@gmail.com. ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4041-8025.
AD  - Professor and Head, Division of Construction Engineering and Management, Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States. Email: hastak@purdue.edu.
AD  - Associate Professor, School of Engineering, Department of Structural and Construction Engineering, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. E-mail: dayanabcosta@ufba.br. ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1457- 6401
AB  - The importance of digital transformation (DT) has risen significantly in the past few years in several industry sectors, including construction. Some potential benefits of DT in construction include improvements in productivity, efficiency, safety, quality, and collaboration. However, fully embracing DT opportunities involves committed efforts in Key Project Areas (KPAs), and identifying these areas is still challenging. Therefore, this work aims to assess social, technical, and operational maturity dimensions for digital transformation in the construction phase. These dimensions are the KPAs construction managers should focus on throughout the construction environment DT process. A questionnaire was administered to 54 construction professionals from industry and academia. Data collected was analyzed using ranking analysis from the Relative Importance Index (RII) calculation. Results revealed that the participants did not rank technical aspects as the most significant; rather, these aspects were regarded with slightly less importance than other dimensions. The balance among social, technical, and operational factors in the ranking indicates that construction professionals recognize the insufficiency of technology implementation alone for driving significant changes; instead, human resources must lead the process improvement with the support of digital technologies. These findings align with Industry 5.0 and Lean Construction concepts, reflecting some synergies between them.
KW  - Digital transformation
KW  - Construction phase
KW  - Industry 5.0
KW  - Lean construction.
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T2  - Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 32)
DA  - 2024/07/01
CY  - Auckland, New Zealand
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2273/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2273
N1  - Export Date: 05 April 2025
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -