# The Role of Blockchain in Improving the Processes and Workflows in Construction Projects
## 4 Results and Discussion
### The Benefits of Blockchain in Improving the Processes and Workflows of Construction Projects
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**Question** & **Answers** \\ \hline What are the most common use cases of BCT in the construction industry? & Administrative purposes. Use of smart contracts for transactions. Permanent transaction records. Permanent ownership records. \\ \hline What are the benefits and potential of blockchain technologies in the construction industry? & Streamline processes and increase efficiency by proposing a conceptual idea for implementing blockchain technologies within the construction industry. Eliminate some of the construction management shortcomings by establishing a correlation between the use of Distributed Ledger Technology in construction and the fundamental properties of Distributed Ledger Technology. \\ \hline What are the benefits and potential of blockchain technologies in the construction industry? & Improve communication between all stakeholders. Resolve some of the issues plaguing the adoption of BIM in the construction industry. Enhance procurement processes and reduce their complexity. Elevate the efficiency of both business and administrative processes through automation to yield perpetual compliance with contractual terms. \\ \hline What are the challenges of blockchain technologies in the construction industry? & Technological state of the industry. Skills. Resistance to change. Readiness for adoption. Power. \\ \hline How would blockchain technology resolve the causes of delays and disputes in construction projects? & Create a shared system from which users can view transactions occurring within it. This allows for the faster and easier transfer of assets among parties without the use of any third-party intermediaries or central authorities. Enable direct enterprise control of payments and inventory mentorship. Ensure that designs are well documented and distributed among all stakeholders and changes are made only after consensus is reached. Trace all change orders and document them in immutable records. Submit electronic applications to extract the most commonly used licenses and the information services that help the beneficiaries to make relevant decisions in a way that contributes to improving the level of satisfaction. Create a “reputation ledger” where contracts and subcontractors’ deliverables will be tracked in an immutable record. \\ \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 6: The main findings of this study. * _Study Limitations_  
Although blockchain is the biggest buzzword in the industry, there are many opportunities for this emerging technology to be used in construction projects, which typically entails the coordination and the transfer of ownership of assets. The use of blockchain would improve coordination and also reduce disputes due to a shared client-contractor database. However, while opportunities exist to use blockchain applications in construction, there are few limitations that must be addressed first. The first limitation is lack of personnel expertise on how to implement blockchain into an organization's existing processes. The second limitation is the limited research on the benefits of blockchain for specific stakeholders. In addition, some search keywords such as \"blockchain\" and \"construction\" could have very overreaching results. Moreover, the scattered and very conservative nature of the construction industry made it difficult to obtain firsthand data to build a meaningful sample of contractors and project managers' feedback.