Construction 4.0 - digital transformation of one of the oldest industries

Klinc, Robert (author), Turk, Žiga (author)

In the early 2010s, the German industry started their reform and revival under the keyword "Industrie Vier Punkt Null". The European Unions strategies adopted most of the ideas and member states followed. The European construction industry too stared to explore how to benefit from it. In this review paper, we explain the ideas behind Industry 4.0. We present aspects of Industry 4.0: what it means for the customer, business and industry as a whole. Based on that framework we analysed the potentials of Industry 4.0 in the construction industry and where due to some specifics of the industry construction is actually ahead in adopting the Industry 4.0 concepts.

• Language: English
• Keywords: industrial policy, industry 4.0, construction 4.0, building information modelling, BIM, cyber-physical systems
• Work type: Scientific work
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FGG - Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: Str. 393-410
• Numbering: Letn. 21, št. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-114085
• UDC: 004:69
• ISSN on article: 1580-0466
• DOI: 10.15458/ebr.92
• COBISS.SI-ID: 9010017
• Publication date in RUL: 13.02.2020

KLINC, Robert and TURK, Žiga, 2019, Construction 4.0 - digital transformation of one of the oldest industries. Economic and business review [online]. 2019. Vol. 21, no. 3, p. 393–410. [Accessed 24 July 2025]. DOI 10.15458/ebr.92. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=114085

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Economic and business review
• Shortened title: Econ. bus. rev
• Publisher: Ekonomska fakulteta
• ISSN: 1580-0466
• COBISS.SI-ID: 103864832

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.
• Licensing start date: 13.02.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: industrijska politika, industrija 4.0, gradbeništvo 4.0, informacijsko modeliranje gradenj, BIM, kibernetsko-fizični sistemi

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0210
• Name: E-Gradbeništvo