TY - JOUR
T1 - Establishing underpinning concepts for integrating circular economy and offsite construction
T2 - a bibliometric review
AU - Obi, Lovelin
AU - Arif, Mohammed
AU - Daniel, Emmanuel I.
AU - Oladinrin, Olugbenga Timo
AU - Goulding, Jack Steven
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, Emerald Publishing Limited.
PY - 2023/1/17
Y1 - 2023/1/17
N2 - Purpose: Circular economy (CE) and offsite construction (OSC) are two innovations for improving the construction industry's overall performance against a myriad of sustainability-driven agenda/initiatives. There is a real opportunity to conjoin OSC and CE to provide new insight and opportunities to deliver more evidence-based sustainable systems. This study analyses extant literature in CE and OSC (between 2000 and 2021) through a bibliometric review to tease out critical measures for their integration and transformation.Design/methodology/approach: This study adopts a science mapping quantitative literature review approach employing bibliometric and visualisation techniques to systematically investigate data. The Web of Science (WoS) database was used to collect data, and the VOSviewer software to analyse the data collected to determine strengths, weights, clusters and research trends in OSC and CE. Findings: Important findings emerging from the study include extensive focus on sustainability, waste, life cycle assessment and building information modelling (BIM), which currently serve as strong interlinks to integrate OSC and CE. Circular business models, deconstruction and supply chain management are emerging areas, with strong links for integrating CE and OSC. These emerging areas influence organisational and operational decisions towards sustainable value creation, hence requiring more future empirical investigations. Originality/value: This study is a novel research using bibliometric analysis to unpick underpinning conduits for integrating CE and OSC, providing a blueprint for circular OSC future research and practice. It provides the needed awareness to develop viable strategies for integrating CE in OSC, creating opportunities to transition to more sustainable systems in the construction sector.
AB - Purpose: Circular economy (CE) and offsite construction (OSC) are two innovations for improving the construction industry's overall performance against a myriad of sustainability-driven agenda/initiatives. There is a real opportunity to conjoin OSC and CE to provide new insight and opportunities to deliver more evidence-based sustainable systems. This study analyses extant literature in CE and OSC (between 2000 and 2021) through a bibliometric review to tease out critical measures for their integration and transformation.Design/methodology/approach: This study adopts a science mapping quantitative literature review approach employing bibliometric and visualisation techniques to systematically investigate data. The Web of Science (WoS) database was used to collect data, and the VOSviewer software to analyse the data collected to determine strengths, weights, clusters and research trends in OSC and CE. Findings: Important findings emerging from the study include extensive focus on sustainability, waste, life cycle assessment and building information modelling (BIM), which currently serve as strong interlinks to integrate OSC and CE. Circular business models, deconstruction and supply chain management are emerging areas, with strong links for integrating CE and OSC. These emerging areas influence organisational and operational decisions towards sustainable value creation, hence requiring more future empirical investigations. Originality/value: This study is a novel research using bibliometric analysis to unpick underpinning conduits for integrating CE and OSC, providing a blueprint for circular OSC future research and practice. It provides the needed awareness to develop viable strategies for integrating CE in OSC, creating opportunities to transition to more sustainable systems in the construction sector.
KW - Bibliometric analysis
KW - Circular economy
KW - Construction industry
KW - Literature review
KW - Offsite construction
KW - Science mapping
KW - Sustainability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85144145647&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/BEPAM-01-2022-0009
DO - 10.1108/BEPAM-01-2022-0009
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85144145647
SN - 2044-124X
VL - 13
SP - 123
EP - 139
JO - Built Environment Project and Asset Management
JF - Built Environment Project and Asset Management
IS - 1
ER -