Digital technologies, such as BIM, Digital Twins, AI, Augmented Reality, and RFID, have come to play a significant role in the construction practice. Although these technologies may seem promising, practitioners often fail to reap their benefits. In this research program, different concepts and theories are applied to a wide range of digital technologies to understand the preconditions for and effects of digital technologies on users, organizations, and supply chains in construction practice.
Concepts and theories used are for example the level of maturity, information processing theory, and the theory of technical mediation. The concept of maturity is the level of professionalism in applying or using digital technologies in construction practice, i.e. BIM maturity in construction firms. Information processing theory is used to analyze the role of digital technologies in construction supply chains. The mediation approach explores user-technology relations. Specific digital technologies in construction, i.e. machine learning, BIM and RFID, and their implications for their users are studied using this approach. Through adopting the perspectives just mentioned, more realistic expectations of what digital technologies can do in construction practice are achieved.
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