Journal
ADVANCED ENGINEERING INFORMATICS
Volume 50, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2021.101444
Keywords
Blockchain; Smart contract; Visibility; Impact assessment; Construction supply chain; Crypto currency; Crypto token; Payments
Funding
- Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE) at Stanford University [2020-09, 2018-06, 2017-06]
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This study assesses the impact of blockchain and smart contracts on the visibility of construction supply chain, finding that blockchain improves information completeness and accuracy compared to digital solutions. The improvements are more pronounced for queries with higher granularity, and the blockchain-enabled solution is robust in handling more granular information queries.
This work assesses the impact of blockchain and smart contracts on the visibility of construction supply chain and in the context of payments (intersection of cash and product flows). It uses comparative empirical experiments (Charrette Test Method) to draw comparisons between the visibility of state-of-practice and blockchain-enabled payment systems in a commercial construction project. Comparisons were drawn across four levels of granularity. The findings are threefold: 1) blockchain improved information completeness and information accuracy compared with the digital state-of-practice solution; 2) the improvements were significantly more pronounced for information queries that had higher product, trade, and temporal granularity; and 3) blockchain-enabled solution was robust when faced with more granular information queries, while the conventional solution experienced 50% and 66.7% decline respectively in completeness and accuracy of information. The paper concludes with a discussion of mechanisms contributing to visibility and the implications for the construction industry.
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