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Blockchain and Building Information Modeling (BIM)

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 27910

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Prof. Dr. Nawari Nawari

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School of Architecture, College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Interests: architectural structures; sustainability and resilience; building information modeling (BIM); blockchain technology
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Dear Collegues,

The Blockchain Technology (BCT) is a growing digital technology which is proposed by Nakamoto (2008) as a (i) decentralized, (ii) full-lifecycle traceable public ledger of transactions for all participants with (iii) security and privacy of the network that is based on consensus algorithms. Due to the three main characteristics of the BCT, it has gained recently widespread traction in various industries in the public and private sectors. (Nawari, 2019).

The introduction of decentralized data exchange technology in any industry would require strengthened security, enforce accountability, and could potentially accelerate a shift in workflow dynamics from current centralized architectures to a decentralized, cooperative chain of command and affect a cultural and societal change by encouraging trust and transparency. BCT aims at creating a system that would offer a robust self-regulating, self-monitoring, and cyber-resilient data transaction operation, assuring the facilitation and protection of a truly efficient data exchange system.

Evolving technologies like BIM and blockchain have seen significant advances in recent years and have been widely tipped to disrupt existing socio-technological hierarchies and workflows. The transformative potential of these new developments is evident, but they are still in their nascent stages. BIM is at the forefront of digital transformation in the AEC industry, and there is an increasing interest in integrating BIM workflow and BCT, with a view toward streamlining a number of operations, such as collaboration and design review while addressing issues such as speed, cybersecurity, reliable data storage, management of permissions, data ownership, and data exchange integrity. This special issue will focus on all topics related to the integration of BCT and BIM process.

Dr. Nawari Nawari
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Blockchain
  • BIM
  • distributed ledger
  • Hyperledger Fabric
  • Smart Contract
  • AEC, BIM Process

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Museum-Authorization of Digital Rights: A Sustainable and Traceable Cultural Relics Exhibition Mechanism
by Yun-Ciao Wang, Chin-Ling Chen and Yong-Yuan Deng
Sustainability 2021, 13(4), 2046; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042046 - 14 Feb 2021
Cited by 18 | Viewed by 4637
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The digital rights management of museums is a mechanism that protects digital content from being abused by controlling and managing its usage rights. Traditional museums attach importance to the collection, display, research, and education functions of “objects”. In response to natural or man-made [...] Read more.
The digital rights management of museums is a mechanism that protects digital content from being abused by controlling and managing its usage rights. Traditional museums attach importance to the collection, display, research, and education functions of “objects”. In response to natural or man-made disasters, people are often caught off guard, destroying material, intangible assets, and spiritual symbolism. Therefore, with the advancement of digital technology, this research is based on the mechanism of blockchain, through the authorization of cryptographic proxy re-encryption, and proposes a new method for the preservation and authorization of digital content in museums, which can effectively display, store, and promote “important cultural relics and digital archives”. In this research, the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA), blockchain, and smart contracts are used to design a sustainable and traceable cultural relic exhibition mechanism. The proposed scheme achieves publicly verifiable, transparency, unforgeability, traceability, non-repudiation, standardization of stored data, timeliness, etc., goals. It is the museum’s preservation and innovation approach for the unpredictable future. Through appropriate preservation and management mechanisms, it has extremely important practical significance for the protection of museum collections, the inheritance of historical and cultural heritage, and the expansion of social education. Full article
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Blockchain-Based Traceability and Visibility for Agricultural Products: A Decentralized Way of Ensuring Food Safety in India
by Deepak Prashar, Nishant Jha, Sudan Jha, Yongju Lee and Gyanendra Prasad Joshi
Sustainability 2020, 12(8), 3497; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12083497 - 24 Apr 2020
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The globalization of the food supply chain industry has significantly emerged today. Due to this, farm-to-fork food safety and quality certification have become very important. Increasing threats to food security and contamination have led to the enormous need for a revolutionary traceability system, [...] Read more.
The globalization of the food supply chain industry has significantly emerged today. Due to this, farm-to-fork food safety and quality certification have become very important. Increasing threats to food security and contamination have led to the enormous need for a revolutionary traceability system, an important mechanism for quality control that ensures sufficient food supply chain product safety. In this work, we proposed a blockchain-based solution that removes the need for a secure centralized structure, intermediaries, and exchanges of information, optimizes performance, and complies with a strong level of safety and integrity. Our approach completely relies on the use of smart contracts to monitor and manage all communications and transactions within the supply chain network among all of the stakeholders. Our approach verifies all of the transactions, which are recorded and stored in a centralized interplanetary file system database. It allows a secure and cost-effective supply chain system for the stakeholders. Thus, our proposed model gives a transparent, accurate, and traceable supply chain system. The proposed solution shows a throughput of 161 transactions per second with a convergence time of 4.82 s, and was found effective in the traceability of the agricultural products. Full article
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A Scalable IoT Protocol via an Efficient DAG-Based Distributed Ledger Consensus
by Bumho Son, Jaewook Lee and Huisu Jang
Sustainability 2020, 12(4), 1529; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12041529 - 18 Feb 2020
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The Internet of Things (IoT) suffers from various security vulnerabilities. The use of blockchain technology can help resolve these vulnerabilities, but some practical problems in terms of scalability continue to hinder the adaption of blockchain for application in the IoT. The directed acyclic [...] Read more.
The Internet of Things (IoT) suffers from various security vulnerabilities. The use of blockchain technology can help resolve these vulnerabilities, but some practical problems in terms of scalability continue to hinder the adaption of blockchain for application in the IoT. The directed acyclic graph (DAG)-based Tangle model proposed by the IOTA Foundation aims to avoid transaction fees by employing a different protocol from that used in the blockchain. This model uses the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm to update a distributed ledger. However, concerns about centralization by the coordinator nodes remain. Additionally, the economic incentive to choose the algorithm is insufficient. The present study proposes a light and efficient distributed ledger update algorithm that regards only the subtangle of each step by considering the Bayesian inference. Experimental results have confirmed that the performance of the proposed methodology is similar to that of the existing methodology, and the proposed methodology enables a faster computation time. It also provides the same resistance to possible attacks, and for the same reasons, as does the MCMC algorithm. Full article
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