Planning and Control of Value Creation Networks in Timber Construction

Almost 40 percent of the global carbon emissions are caused by the construction and building sector. Additionally, the production of traditional building materials like concrete and steel requires a large amount of energy. The demand for residential buildings is increasing none the less and can potentially be met by utilizing more sustainable materials like timber in construction. However, timber construction is still connected to a rather manual value creation chain and analog information transfer. To make the process more time- and energy efficient, this paper proposes a framework for the value creation system of urban timber construction from the forest to the city. The three-leveled framework, based on the principles of Industry 4.0, connects the urban development planning with the vertical networking of digital technologies and the horizontal networking in the value chain. The framework is implemented to a dashboard using Microsoft Power BI to demonstrate the close relations of the layers.