Synergies between digital construction technologies in smart buildings and smart city development to meet building users’ expectations

Abstract

In smart buildings, digital construction technologies can support more efficient management of data and information related to building components. This paper aims to draw a robust linking mechanism between digital construction technologies that support smart buildings and smart city development to satisfy building users' expectations. Data was attained using a qualitative approach via secondary data from literature and primary data in the context of case study with building users. The study suggests the importance of recognising single/multi-purposed data to support better synergy between digital construction technologies and in smart buildings and smart city development to satisfy building users’ expectations.

Keywords

• BIM
• IoT
• Blockchain
• Smart buildings
• Smart city
• Building users