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  • Construction Management
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Sustainability Science

Background:

  • Construction Industrialization (CI) offers significant benefits for industrial performance and global sustainability.
  • Policy interventions promoting CI often overlook the dynamic interplay of stakeholders and technologies.
  • Efficient management of CI is crucial but influenced by complex socio-technical factors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To objectively map the socio-technical system of CI uptake using a Hong Kong case study.
  • To identify critical issues hindering CI adoption and propose actionable policy recommendations.
  • To introduce a novel two-mode social network analysis approach for socio-technical assessment.

Main Methods:

  • Case study analysis in Hong Kong.
  • Two-mode social network analysis (SNA).
  • Socio-technical systems perspective.

Main Results:

  • Detailed depiction of the socio-technical system influencing CI uptake.
  • Identification of key challenges and barriers to CI adoption.
  • A framework for analyzing stakeholder-technology interactions in CI.

Conclusions:

  • CI uptake is a complex socio-technical process requiring dynamic management.
  • Policy interventions must account for stakeholder and technology interactions for effective CI promotion.
  • The proposed SNA approach offers a new method for construction management research and practice.