The Concept of the Digital Twin of the Built Environment

Abstract

The built environment is an area where there are buildings and other objects that meet people’s needs. One of the ways to differentiate people’s needs and satisfy them in real time is to use a digital twin (DT). The digitalization of the construction process uses building information modeling (BIM) methodology. When BIM is applied from the very beginning of the idea of implementing an object of the built environment, information about the object begins to be accumulated from the very beginning of the object’s life cycle. Accumulating information about the object is particularly important to extract the best version of the DT model. It is also important to understand that it is not enough to have a real object and digital information about it. The digital twin will work if information links between the real and virtual environment are provided.