Abstract
The construction industry faces multiple challenges, where transition to circular production is key. Digitalisation is a strategy to increase the sector’s productivity, competitiveness, and efficiency. However, digitalisation also impacts environmental goals, such as those concerning more eco-friendly solutions, energy efficiency, products recycling, and sustainability certifications. These strategies rely on data, understood as digital, interoperable, incremental and traceable. Data related concepts, such as digital data templates (DDT) and digital building logbooks (DBL), contribute to “good data”. Despite some research focused on each one, little importance has yet been given to their combination. Relevant relationships and overlaps exist, as they partially share the exact same data through the built environment life cycle. This research aims to provide improved understanding on the role of these concepts and their contribution to a more circular industry. The review develops conceptualisations where DDT and DBL are complementary and framed within an incremental digital twin construction (DTC). Misconceptions or confrontations between these three solutions can therefore stand down, for the benefit of a data-driven priority. To increase understanding and reduce misconceptions, our study developed the “Digital data-driven concept” (D3c). This concept contribution is the ability to structure, store, and trace data, opening way to streamlined digital transformation impacting circular built environment concerns.
Highlights
The construction industry (CI) has one of the most linear value chains among all economic activities
The subsections present and explore the underlying concepts, understandings, and misconceptions associated to digital data templates (DDT), digital building logbooks (DBL), and digital twin construction (DTC), establishing relationships with other relevant topics and aiming to provide clarity, fostering the realization of the existing overlaps
If we consider an example of DDT for an external thermal insulation composite system (ETICS) solution in a private building, this solution characteristics will be “born” during the design phase, gaining reference values or even specific values related to a commercial solution
Summary
The construction industry (CI) has one of the most linear value chains among all economic activities. The adoption of more circular practices is an imperative for the architecture, engineering, construction, and owner operator (AECOO) sector. Sustainability megatrends in this field point to the reuse of construction products, waste reduction, and more resource-efficient processes [1,2,3,4]. Digital twins (DT) are part of this digital transformation strategy. It is a data-focused concept and allows bi-directional data interaction between the physical built and a digital/responsive twin [5]
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