460 23 EMERGING TRENDS AND RESEARCH DIRECTIONS Eyuphan Koc, Evangelos Pantazis, Lucio Soibelman, and David J. Gerber 23.1 Aims • Presenting a background on diffusion of innovation in the AEC industry and an expanded discussion on factors hindering and motivating innovation highlighting the clash between fragmentation and integration. • Correlating a revised categorization of 4.0 concepts and technologies discussed in previ- ous chapters in terms of their corresponding stage of diffusion across all project phases. • Discussing how technological advancements revealed opportunities for novel and more collaborative project delivery methods such as IPD (Integrated Project Delivery), and how this has the potential to speed up integral 4.0 innovations in a reciprocal feedback manner. • Introducing a broad vision on revising the design and construction curricula to allow for more cross-disciplinary information flow from disciplines that are traditionally left out from training and practice. • Suggest future directions both in industry and academia for introducing interdisciplinary research methods which will allow engineers to take the leadership back in developing their own design and engineering tools (from software engineers) that will allow them to lead the AEC in the information age. 23.2 Introduction “Industrial revolutions” are different periods in time signifying leaps in technology—through discoveries or revolutionary innovations—beyond what was or what could be imagined prior to their occurrence. The designations have naturally been “ex-post” where the so-called First Industrial Revolution resulted from the use of mechanization for production, second from the intensive use of electricity and the third associated with a widespread digitalization of building project delivery (Lasi et al. 2014). Figure 23.1 illustrates a timeline of industrial revolutions and lists paradigm shifting technological leaps associated with them. Over the last decade, originating from the vision laid out by the German government for high-tech manufacturing, the term “Industry 4.0” was loosely coined to describe a Fourth
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