Название: Transforming the Construction Industry with Blockchain: Enhancing Efficiency, Transparency, and Collaboration
Автор: James Harty
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2025
Страниц: 272
Язык: английский
Формат: True PDF, True/Retail EPUB
Размер: 10.1 MB

Apply a transformative new technology to construction projects with this timely guide.

The blockchain is one of the most transformative technologies to emerge in the twenty-first century. But Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will also have a profound impact in construction in equal measure. Both will influence how digitalization is applied and how these new technologies are addressed with an identifiable skills gap in their implementation.

Using a decentralized digital ledger to ensure that information stored across numerous computers cannot be altered, it provides a fully transparent and secure way of storing and sharing information. Transforming the Construction Industry with Blockchain provides a comprehensive overview of this technology and its applications in construction and the building trades. Beginning with an overview of basic blockchain principles and then moving to construction-specific applications, it provides a range of strategies by which construction professionals can increase and streamline their collaborations with other stakeholders and create smarter, more transparent projects.

Blockchain can track the provenance of data used to train machine learning, which means that it is reliable and trusted. This means that in a new era where the data cannot be verified (as in fake news), blockchain ensures that the data has not been tampered with. Making the data reliable makes it not biased too. It can also track and audit the data throughout its lifecycle and report on its performance so that any problems can be easily identified and corrected before much damage is caused.

Provenance is evidence (and a complete documentary) of an entity that can be used to prove its legitimacy, if required. It captures the route mapped out by its history (including ownership). This has a major impact on supply chains, meaning that the sequence through which something has travelled can be documented and traced if there is an issue in that chain. Because, there are many actors in construction, the likelihood and possibility of something going wrong increases exponentially.

Transforming the Construction Industry with Blockchain readers will also find
• Case studies throughout showing blockchain at work in construction projects
• Detailed discussion of topics including improving data flows on construction projects, reducing sub-contracts and misaligned workflows, and many more
• Guidance for using blockchain to encourage sustainable and ethically-sourced design and construction

Transforming the Construction Industry with Blockchain is ideal for all construction professionals or potential stakeholders in building projects.

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