Qualification: To what extent can smart contracts replace traditional contracts in construction project?

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-083 · 2026-08-08

To what extent can smart contracts replace traditional contracts in construction project? identifies translation of construction contracts into computer languages as a major challenge that remains uninvestigated. This independently corresponds to Kaal's coded-versus-natural-language translation burden. The source addresses the opposite translation direction and a construction-sector research gap; it does not establish overwhelming translation costs for courts or regulators.

Affirmed commentary position. This record extends a source-bound scholarly claim but is not a verbatim paper claim.

Holds when

The response is limited to the retrieved source proposition and mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
External evidence level: abstract indexed.
Mapping review tier: substantively reviewed abstract-level qualification.
Primary mapping confidence: 0.62.
The primary mapping cleared the automated ambiguity test; substantive scope remains review-bound.
Evidence is limited to an exact proposition in a Crossref-indexed abstract; full text was not reviewed.
No relationship is treated as external endorsement, citation, causation, or validation of a broader Kaal claim.
The source identifies translation of construction contracts into computer languages as a major uninvestigated challenge. This corresponds to Kaal's coded-versus-natural-language translation burden while addressing the opposite translation direction and a construction-sector research gap rather than costs imposed on courts or regulators.

Current debate

To what extent can smart contracts replace traditional contracts in construction project?

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:3441904-031
Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3441904
Source PDF sha256: e6b562527f7f19accaa35491db0a0db168b6a936755e1dca424e9f30bee7a815

Evidence and mapping

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: substantively reviewed abstract-level qualification
Mapping confidence: 0.62
Mapping ambiguous: false

Topics

smart-contracts historical-response scholarly-literature crossref

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-08:continuous-crossref-0010-remainder-0003-reviewed-v1 on 2026-08-08. Review record.

Verify

Canonical markdown sha256: 0952f64ed52893c6e9ac479c1479a0e513d21faaad246afc39a64bd38c9187c7
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