Future of the Construction Industry: Resilience Planning in Construction for Climate Adaptation and Global Disruptions

The construction industry is also currently situated at a fateful crossroads that brings together climate change, global turbulence, and technological innovations, which are shaping a new path toward its future. Given the increased risks as well as the intensification of climate events characterizing the rise of climate-related risks, which accompany the fragility of global supply chains posed by geopolitical events (that involve tensions between states), influencing the supply chain fragility caused by pandemics and also the economic risks of destabilization, it has never been more critical to consider resilience planning in the field of construction. This paper explores resilience planning as a transformative framework to facilitate an effective adaptation of the construction industry to the challenges imposed by the impacts of climate change and systemic global disruption. Based on an extensive literature review and reinforced by up-to-date case studies and infrastructural evidence, this paper discusses the new tactics, tools, and political and regulatory structures defining resilient constructional practices. The main insights pertain to the fact that adopting digital solutions (artificial intelligence (AI), Building Information Modeling (BIM), Internet of Things (IoT)) and concepts of sustainable infrastructure and people-centered resiliency into the sector may lead to a considerable increase in its adaptive capacity. The study also highlights institutional, financial, and socio-technical obstacles preventing the mainstreaming of resilience planning and makes policy recommendations to concentrate on its removal. This research adds a wealth of knowledge to create long-term sustainability, equity, and ongoing operation continuity of the built environment under unprecedented uncertainty