Framework for decentralised architectural design BIM and Blockchain integration

Dounas, Theodoros, Lombardi, Davide ORCID: 0000-0001-7128-4635 and Jabi, Wassim (2021) Framework for decentralised architectural design BIM and Blockchain integration. International Journal of Architectural Computing, 19 (2). p. 147807712096337.

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Abstract

<jats:p> The paper introduces a framework for decentralised architectural design in the context of the fourth industrial revolution. We examine first the constraints of building information modelling in regard to collaboration and trust. We then introduce Blockchain infrastructure as a means for creating new operational and business models for architectural design, through project governance, scaling collaboration nominally to thousands of agents, and shifting trust to the infrastructure rather than the architectural design team. Through a wider consideration of Blockchains in construction projects we focus on the design process and validate our framework with a prototype of BIM design optimisation integrated with a Blockchain mechanism. The paper concludes by outlining the contributions our framework can enhance in the building information modelling processes, within the context of the fourth industrial revolution. </jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Blockchain, Building Information Modelling, trust, design collaboration, governance, Integrated Project Delivery, incentives, Ethereum
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of the Arts
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	12 Apr 2021 08:16
Last Modified:	18 Jan 2023 22:53
DOI:	10.1177/1478077120963376
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3118959