TY  - CONF
TI  - Digital Twin of a Design Process: An Exploratory Study
C1  - Edmonton, Canada
C3  - Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
SP  - 1198
EP  - 1209
PY  - 2022
DO  - 10.24928/2022/0238
AU  - Abou-Ibrahim, Hisham 
AU  - Lappalainen, Eelon 
AU  - Seppänen, Olli 
AD  - Postdoctoral Researcher, Building Design and Construction, Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto  University, Finland. hisham.abouibrahim@aalto.fi. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4261-9322
AD  - PhD Student, Building Design and Construction, Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto University,  Finland. eelon.lappalainen@aalto.fi. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7573-344X
AD  - Associate Professor, Building Design and Construction, Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto  University, Finland. olli.seppanen@aalto.fi. orcid.org/0000-0002-2008-5924 
AB  - Digital twinning is a new approach to enhance the management of design, planning and construction operations. A construction digital twin aims to enhance the reality capture of ongoing operations using sensing technologies and AI functions to enable proactive process management. While a digital twin is clearly defined in the context of construction operations, where a digital replica is generated out of a physical site; a design digital twin lacks a clear framing as both twins are digital. This paper explores an approach to creating a design digital twin using agent-based simulation to mimic real BIM-based design projects. Accordingly, a digital replica is generated as an agent-based model. In addition, several KPIs are introduced to capture data related to BIM model dynamics. The results show that the suggested KPIs can increase the transparency of the design process, capture development dynamics at the level of BIM model elements, increase situational awareness among designers related to model development status, and identify higher clashing risk zones. 
KW  - Lean Construction
KW  - Visual Management
KW  - Process
KW  - Design Digital Twin
PB  - 
T2  - Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
DA  - 2022/07/27
CY  - Edmonton, Canada
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2043/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2043
N1  - Export Date: 29 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -