Special Issue “Digital Twin Technology in the AEC Industry”

Zhang, Jisong; Zhao, Lei; Ren, Guoqian; Li, Haijiang; Liu, Xiaofei

doi:10.1155/2020/8842113

Cited by 12 publications

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References 66 publications

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“…Case studies and LCA frameworks (that could be operationalised) were separated for detailed analysis, numbering 42 documents in total [1, 2, . The remaining 24 documents [5,13,15,19,21,[62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80] were included in the literature review, in addition to 12 academic articles, industry documents and reports [9,[16][17][18][81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88] that were selected using a backward and forward snowball approach (papers from the reference list, and papers that cited articles in the review). This technique was used when there were perceived information gaps.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Approaches for assessing embodied environmental effects during the building design process

Prideaux

Crawford

Allacker

et al. 2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Buildings and construction are among the leading contributors towards global greenhouse gas emissions, resource demands, waste, and pollution, placing a massive strain on our natural environment. Until recently, mitigation strategies have primarily concentrated on reductions in operational energy, failing to account for embodied effects; those associated with the manufacture of construction goods, construction activities, and end of life considerations. In recent years, there has been an increased recognition of the growing significance of embodied effects, and the opportunity to reduce these during the building design process. However, life cycle assessment (LCA) tools used to quantify environmental flows are often perceived as being too time-consuming or complicated to incorporate into prevalent building design workflows. The aim of this study was to review approaches for assessing embodied environmental effects during the building design process, including the LCA tools and environmental data used to achieve this. A systematic review was conducted of academic and grey literature. The study identified three main approaches for incorporating LCA into the building design process: simplified LCA, detailed LCA and incremental LCA. Further analysis of these approaches was conducted, based on case studies. General attributes and design considerations were identified, and mapped against the early design, and detailed design stages. A wide variety of LCA approaches were reviewed, responding to various challenges for incorporating LCA into the building design process, with no singular approach able to completely satisfy all requirements. Findings highlight the lack of incremental LCA approaches, and the need for further research to understand how LCA approaches can be better used to improve the embodied environmental performance of buildings during the design process.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Approaches for assessing embodied environmental effects during the building design process

Prideaux

Crawford

Allacker

et al. 2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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“…Manufacturing "DT is very realistic models of the current state of the process and their own behavior in interaction with their environment in the real world" [93] Data-Oriented modeling "Coupled model of the real machine that operates in the cloud platform and simulates the health condition with an integrated knowledge from both data driven analytical algorithms as well as other available physical knowledge" [94] Cyber-Physical Systems "Digital Twin, which links the physical system with its virtual equivalent can mitigate these problematic issues" [95] "The Digital Twin (DT) is meant as the virtual and computerized counterpart of a physical system that can be used to simulate it for various purposes, exploiting a realtime synchronization of the sensed data coming from the field" [96] "Digital Twin, requires a cloud-based solution to ensure a near real-time processing" [97,98] Different applications are reported for DT in literature, life prediction [86], supply chain simulation [99], safety and reliability [30], quality control/improve [100], maintenance [101][102][103][104][105], urban administration [106], building lifecycle [107,108], uncertainty management [95], decision science [109], material science [110], cloth industry [111],…”

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Digital Twin (DT) in Smart Energy Systems - Systematic Literature Review of DT as a growing solution for Energy Internet of the Things (EIoT)

2021

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In the industry 4.0 era, the Smart Energy System (SES) should be able to address the emerging challenges of digitization and socioeconomic/ecologic transition along with other critical entities of the society. However, because of the complexity of this system, both researchers and practitioners are seeking an agile and smart solution. The main motive of this review is to investigate the applications and implementation of Digital Twin (DT) in the provision of energy services. Research Questions (RQ) of this study include: RQ1: What are the applications of DT in SES and how effective is DT in that use case of EIoT? RQ2: Which issues of an SES can be addressed efficiently by using DT? Through answering the mentioned questions, the current study is heading to following objectives (O), O1: Describe the state of the art of DT in SES. O2: Develop a direction for energy 4.0 management through listing the applications, challenges and important factors of implementing DTs. O3: Provide a list of various approaches in employing DT in the scope of SES. The current study is a systematic literature review (SLR), based on SCOPUS, WOS and IEEE digital libraries. Two keywords (namely “Digital Twin” and “Energy Systems”) have been first used. To achieve the final list of articles, 2 levels of screening have been conducted. The first Screening was based on the relevance of the results concerning research objectives. The second screening was an abstract study. The exclusion/inclusion criteria in the abstract study were based on the research questions. The papers that have the potential of answering one of the research questions have been included. Since the implementation of DT is a rather new topic, both backward snowballing and forward snowballing strategies are implemented to finalize the article selection phase. 60 articles identified by searching through scientific databases and 11 articles have been appended to the list during the snowballing process. The results of the current review provide a managerial guideline for practitioners that are heading to utilize DT, along with an anthology of DT within SES scope to feed possible future studies.

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“…However, there is still a lack of integrated approaches that can address all of the issues connected with the whole lifecycle of buildings. The Digital Twin approach is a research area that identifies many of the current and potential future challenges [17,18].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Lauria,

Azzalin

2024

Buildings

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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.

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Special Issue “Digital Twin Technology in the AEC Industry”

Cited by 12 publications

References 66 publications

Approaches for assessing embodied environmental effects during the building design process

Approaches for assessing embodied environmental effects during the building design process

Digital Twin (DT) in Smart Energy Systems - Systematic Literature Review of DT as a growing solution for Energy Internet of the Things (EIoT)

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

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