Assessing the challenges affecting blockchain adoption in the Jordanian construction industry: PESTEL framework approach

12.Nov.2025

​This study aims to examine the challenges that the construction industry (CI) practitioners face in adopting blockchain technology (BCT) in the Jordanian CI.

Design/methodology/approach

Exploratory research perspective is applied to identify the challenges of BCT in the CI by conducting a bibliometric analysis. Challenges are clustered via the political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal (PESTEL) framework and to investigate the inter-linkages between the challenges, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is applied. Convenience sampling is used with only first-grade classification to rank the challenges based on their importance index from the perspective of three Jordanian construction stakeholders; architects, consulting engineers and civil engineers.​​