Digitalization of the South African Construction Industry: A Potential for Further Future Research

Abstract

This paper reviewed recent researches on digitalization of the South African construction industry in comparison with countries like United Kingdom and Korea among others with a view to identify the potential of subsequent research that will further enhance the digitalization level of the South African construction industry. It was pursued via a review of existing and recent literature retrieved from various search engines such as GoogleScholar® within the years 2017–2020 which is assumed to be the years of active research activities in digitalization in South African Construction industry based on Deloitte South Africa-White Paper Report. The research accessed the various researches conducted and the result proposed five broad research directions among which are: broad trends in digitalization of the construction industry; perceptions and methods used by the scholars; government guidelines; digital technologies; and apprehension around security. It is on the premises of this direction that this paper suggests that subsequent research should be challenged in this direction as it was observed as an obvious study/research gap.