A social-product-process framework for construction

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

This paper introduces a new framework for understanding, modelling and software engineering in construction information activities. The current framework is based on understanding that products are the results of processes, which are performed by actors. Such frameworks are influenced by the available technology. The Internet of today is supporting also other kinds of human activities: communication and social interactions among humans. The construction industry uses them as well but without having a proper understanding of their role. There is a gap in the current framework. In this paper, the relevant theories to specify this gap in terms of what could exist in theory and what is offered by technology are analysed. As a result, a new framework of construction information activities that fills the gap is proposed. The key concepts and relations among them are identified and elaborated within the existing framework. The framework introduces the third major integrative element of the otherwise fragmented construction information activities the social network the existing two being the physical building and its digital twin. The framework provides a theoretical and conceptual basis for designing, planning, creating, monitoring and evaluating construction-related online services that include a strong social component and use social media services.

• Language: English
• Keywords: construction, process modelling, workflow, social media, BIM
• Work type: Scientific work
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FGG - Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 747-762
• Numbering: Letn. 48, št. 7
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-114374
• UDC: 624:004
• ISSN on article: 0961-3218
• DOI: 10.1080/09613218.2019.1691487
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8961121
• Publication date in RUL: 24.02.2020

TURK, Žiga and KLINC, Robert, 2020, A social-product-process framework for construction. Building research and information [online]. 2020. Vol. 48, no. 7, p. 747–762. [Accessed 30 March 2025]. DOI 10.1080/09613218.2019.1691487. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=114374

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Building research and information
• Shortened title: Build. res. inf.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction
• ISSN: 0961-3218
• COBISS.SI-ID: 947989

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Description: A Creative Commons license that bans commercial use and requires the user to release any modified works under this license.
• Licensing start date: 24.02.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: gradbeništvo, modeliranje procesov, modeliranje procesov, delotok, družbena omrežja, BIM

Projects

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