ABSTRACT
Although the advent of Construction 4.0 has allowed for increased research on the concept, research directions are centred on the technologies themselves and their practical application in a particular sphere of the construction industry (CI). Very little effort has been made to identify the capacity needs and directions for holistic capacity building (CB) of individuals (professionals and practitioners), organizations (construction firms), and systems for Construction 4.0 adoption in the built environment (BE). It is thus important to explore what CB means towards adopting Construction 4.0. In a more general scope, the identification of capacity needs would bring to the fore, the missing knowledge, skills, values, systems, and social processes that set the preconditions for the adoption of Construction 4.0 globally. This chapter identified capacity needs of professionals from a systems approach focusing on four dimensions of capapcity building. They are the types of capapcity, the levels of CB, stages of CB, and outcomes of capcity building. This perspective may represent, arguably, the most important contribution of CB to CI. The findings of the study have, thus, revealed that building the capacities of BE professionals to adopt Construction 4.0 should be addressed as part of a broader framework, interdependent on the other dimensions of CB holistically.
