A Systematic Review on Enhancement in Quality of Life through Digitalization in the Construction Industry

In 2011, the term Digital Twin was originally introduced by Michael Grieves to define the synchronization between two realities: physical objects placed in a real space and virtual objects within in virtual space, linked through the mutual exchange of data throughout the entire lifecycle, both in real-time and asynchronously. Nowadays, Digital Twin is among the principal and emerging technological innovations of both Industry 4.0 and the emerging Industry 5.0, enabling an interaction between physical and virtual objects, Big Data, Internet of Things, and Artificial Intelligence. The construction sector, too, is now exploring the potentialities offered by the Digital Twin approach in enhancing innovative, responsible, and sustainable governance of buildings’ lifecycles. Concerning these issues, this paper proposes visualizing future challenges with a specific focus on the operation and maintenance phase and its related impact on decarbonization via a critical literature review of the current statements. The applied methodology is based on three different questions related to certain research issues performed in the Scopus database. The selected findings were filtered, classified, and discussed. Some future challenges on specific issues have been identified, defining and promoting novel research ideas.

Section: Digital Twin For the Built Environment: An Open Development ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Twin Approach in Buildings: Future Challenges via a Critical Literature Review

Lauria,

Azzalin

2024

“…5 The system maintenance and upgrade fee charged by the service provider should not be too high and when it exceeds 50% of the revenue of the system solution, the enterprise will change synchronously with the service provider's strategy. 6 The increase in the probability of loans from financial institutions to enterprises has a promotional effect on all three parties, which can effectively promote the digital transformation of the industry. 7 The use of high rewards and penalties by higher-level governments against local governments can effectively encourage local governments to choose active promotion strategies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As a national pillar industry, the construction engineering industry is characterized by fragmentation and complexity, as well as high energy consumption, high pollution, and sloppy development. Especially under the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the traditional construction industry model has been unable to meet the need for high-quality sustainable development in the construction industry [5][6][7]. Construction digitalization provides an opportunity for development and is becoming an important force driving the transformation and upgrading of the construction industry [8,9].…”

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Evolutionary Game Analysis for Key Participants’ Behavior in Digital Transformation of the Chinese Construction Industry

Zhang

Wang

2023

The transformation and upgrading of the construction industry has made obvious progress in China. However, the low degree of digitalization is still prominent. The digital transformation decision-making behavior of key participants in the construction industry is easily affected by economic interests, meaning that the implementation of digital transformation is a dynamic evolution process of repeated adjustment and continuous learning. Therefore, this study constructed a tripartite evolutionary game model of the government, service providers, and construction enterprises, and analyzed the strategy selection of each game player and the stability of the system equilibrium point. Moreover, the validity of the model and the influence of various factors on the system were verified and analyzed by numerical simulation. The results showed the following: (1) The government’s tax refund ratio and subsidy coefficient can significantly increase the motivation of construction enterprises and digital construction service providers within a certain threshold. (2) Whether enterprises carry out a comprehensive digital transformation depends on the revenue of the system solution strategy; the greater the revenue, the more positive the enterprises. (3) The adoption of high rewards and high penalties by the superior government can effectively encourage the local government to actively promote digital transformation. The contribution of this study lies in providing a theoretical basis and decision support for promoting the digital transformation of construction enterprises.

“…Therefore, the construction of a DT urban platform can improve the perception and decision-making capacity of cities, as it simultaneously offers a broad vision for planning future interventions and a valuable tool for city governance. Musarat et al [88] state that digitization in infrastructure construction has improved quality of life, and enhanced productivity and automation. As repeatedly mentioned, data sharing and exchange are necessary to reduce risks to people, reduce environmental impacts, and to prevent unforeseen events on the construction site by checking in advance for interference between architecture, structures, and installations.…”

Section: Open I-bim and Data Exchangementioning

confidence: 99%

Systematic Literature Review of Open Infrastructure BIM

Salzano,

Intignano,

Mottola

et al. 2023

Representation and modeling using the building information modeling (BIM) methodology of civil works have become the subject of increasing attention in recent years, thanks to the potential offered by Open Infrastructure BIM (I-BIM). However, the complexity of infrastructure works, i.e., the variety of construction and technological systems, makes Open I-BIM very complex and challenging. The lack of systemic knowledge on the subject is another challenging factor. The aim of the following research work is to provide a synoptic overview of the existing scientific research, accompanied by the most recent studies in the field of computer modeling, its applications, and the main opportunities that Open I-BIM offers to the infrastructure sector. After a thorough review of 198 scientific articles published between 2013 and 2023, this study systematically presents a holistic review and critical reflection on the current status of the use of Open BIM in the infrastructure sector, with a focus on the development of the tools and methods used. The outcome of this work constitutes a systematic review of the literature with a bibliometric analysis on Open I-BIM, which is able to provide a knowledge base for identifying research trends, common problems, and the potential of developed methods.