Guest editorial: Working smarter by applying advanced technologies in construction: enhancing capacity and capability in construction sector for infrastructure project delivery

Whilst there is a clear need for increased spending, embracing innovation, working smarter and collaboratively to enhance capability and capacity will also have a significant impact in bridging this gap and saving global economies valuable resources (Chen et al., 2018;World Economic Forum, 2019). [...]the topic of developing smart systems and technological advancements in facilitating, building and sustaining capacity and capability is of significance for infrastructure development and a necessity for the construction sector. [...]bibliometric and content analysis was used, and a taxonomy of risks associated to OSM was developed. [...]a novel deep CNN learning model was developed to maximise crack detection accuracy. [...]in article seven, Danquah et al. looked into the awareness of design requirements to enable future technology applications.