Exploring the potentials of blockchain application in construction industry: A systematic review

Construction industry are facing trust and transparency issue that has caused loose collaboration among stakeholders. Blockchain technology is found as one of the disrupting digital technology that can response to the problems faced. Recent paper reviews on blockchain application in construction industry are still lacking concrete and not up to state-of-the-art applications. The aim of the paper was therefore to discover how blockchain technology can disrupt construction industry. Two research objectives were established to identify the potential areas blockchain could disrupt construction industry and to identify future research direction of blockchain in construction industry. This study presented systematic mapping study and content analysis of 57 papers from three high quality scientific databases and google scholar. The findings identified six potential areas for blockchain application in construction industry, where supply chain management, building information modelling and contract management are the 3 major aspects highly focussed. Future research may concentrate on developing simulation models, conduct case studies on the real life blockchain applications in construction project, and focus on the blockchain application on the existing systems that are currently in use in construction industry. Other recommendations can be found at discussion of the study.