Application of TRIZ in Building Industry: Study of Current Situation

This article is focused on literature review in the area of TRIZ application in building industry. TRIZ is the Russian acronym for the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving which can be presented as a methodology for problem-solving, ideas-generating and forecasting in innovation, based on logic and data. The theory has been widely used in many fields since early 2000s when innovation became an integral part of the modern World. Despite that, the analysis showed that the number of publications related to application of TRIZ in construction is less than 2% out of all TRIZ-related studies in the SCOPUS database. The paper is organized in the following order: introduction into the topic, the principle of obtaining the dataset for the review, Short description of TRIZ and its possible application in construction, discussion of demand of innovation in building industry and the main body consisting of TRIZ in Development of Construction Techniques and Technologies, TRIZ in Design of New Structures and Construction Materials and TRIZ in Construction Project Management and Value Engineering. The work ends with conclusion, suggestion for future work and acknowledgment. Overall, 28 scientific works regarding application of TRIZ in building industry were discovered and reviewed in this paper. The study reveals that TRIZ usage in construction is still quite limited. The further research will adapt classic TRIZ tools for construction engineering and management and provide a number of specific case studies.