سامره جدیدالاسلامی

At this time in history that the world is becoming smaller every day due to globalization; it is important to achieve an acceptable degree of trust and confidence in any field; and blockchain can put the world on this path. Since there is no central authority governing blockchain, its decentralized nature can turn it into an appropriate platform for project management. Implementing blockchain eliminates project management bureaucracies and allows a single, unchangeable, controllable, and encrypted source to be accessible to everybody and extensible throughout the project life cycle. This approach is the key to achieve an integrated information system and is one of the important reasons for blockchain applicability as an ideal platform for project management and construction. This issue that using blockchain technology in project management will bring about capacities and capabilities has not yet been seriously addressed. Changing the management of construction projects by blockchain is just an idea for now. This study aims to identify the capacity and platforms for developing blockchain technology in project management and construction using systematic and scoping literature reviews. Moreover, it provides some suggestions about the development and improvement areas of this technology. The review results showed that in all areas of project management and construction, there are applications relevant to blockchain technology that confirm the gradual understanding of the significance and positive impact of this technology on enhancing project management and construction performance. According to the results, a major part of blockchain studies was focused on “program and project management”, and two fields of human resources and behavioural areas and research in project management and schools of thought with a share of less than 2% of existing studies were neglected.

This article examines digital transformation in the construction industry, which begins with adopting digital technologies and culminates in comprehensive organizational change. The diverse and often conflicting conceptualizations in this field have created ambiguity in the theoretical framework of digi-tal transformation in construction. Using topic modeling and pattern analysis, this study identifies key themes and trends in the domain. The article analyzes 1,308 articles published between 1990 and 2023 to review research areas related to digital transformation in the construction industry. It identifies six main topics: Security & Safety, Organization & Project Management, Digital Simulation & Interaction, Sustainability, Innovative Building Materials, and Dynamic Monitoring Methods. The analysis reveals that Organization & Project Management is the most researched topic, while Sustainability receives the least attention. The article offers recommendations for advancing research in this field and serves as a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners interested in digital transformation in construction. By addressing existing criticisms, it provides a clear map of the field’s structure and trends, comple-menting previous qualitative studies with a broader, more structured, and objective analysis.