Infrastructure Elements for Smart Campuses: A Bibliometric Analysis

Temitope Omotayo, Alireza Moghayedi, Bankole Awuzie and Saheed Ajayi
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Temitope Omotayo: School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds LS2 8AG, UK
Alireza Moghayedi: Department of Construction Economics and Management, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town 7700, South Africa
Bankole Awuzie: Centre for Sustainable Smart Cities, Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein 9301, South Africa
Saheed Ajayi: School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds LS2 8AG, UK

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 14, 1-32

Abstract: Sustainable development can be attained at a microlevel and having smart campuses around the world presents an opportunity to achieve city-wide smartness. In the process of attaining smartness on campuses, the elements requiring attention must be investigated. There are many publications on smart campuses, and this investigation used the bibliometric analysis method to identify such publications produced over the last decade. A matrix of 578 nodes and 3217 edges was developed from 285 publications on smart campus construction and procurement. Fifteen cluster themes were produced from the bibliometric analysis. The findings revealed that China contributed 48.4% of all published articles on the smart campus. The findings presented a framework from the cluster themes under the four broad infrastructure areas of building construction or repurposing, technology and IT network, continuous improvement, and smart learning and teaching management. The implications of the findings identified that IT project management, traditional procurement strategy, and standard forms of contracts such as the New Engineering Contract (NEC) and the Joint Contract Tribunal (JCT) are applicable in the procurement of smart cities.

Keywords: bibliometric analysis; construction; infrastructure; procurement; smart campus; smart city (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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