scholarly journals Incremental Digital Twin Conceptualisations Targeting Data-Driven Circular Construction

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 554
Author(s):  
Pedro Mêda ◽  
Diego Calvetti ◽  
Eilif Hjelseth ◽  
Hipólito Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Three Solutions ◽  
Digital Twin ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
Environmental Goals

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.

scholarly journals Policy Mix for a Transition to Sustainability: Green Buildings in Norway

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilde Nykamp
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Policy Mix ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Clear Communication ◽  
Different Levels

A transition to sustainability is a systemic shift in the way buildings are procured, produced and used, as well as how the built environment connects to the energy and mobility systems. This study focuses on the role of policy and assesses how the policy mix affects transition to green buildings. The case of the Norwegian construction industry is analyzed through a theoretical framework that cuts across policy domains, it includes a mix of policy instruments, as well as rationales for policy. Results show that the instrument mix is relatively consistent and there is a powerful self-reinforcing dynamic among financial, regulative, and information-based instruments. A small fraction of the industry drives innovation, and policy instruments target different segments of the industry accordingly. The synergies between instruments create a dynamic where policy aimed at the elite and policy aimed at lifting the bottom reinforce each other. This policy dynamic supports a transition by allowing the industry to change through cumulative incremental changes. At the same time there is a need for coordination between policy domains and different levels of governance. Conflicts arise from differences in goals and styles of governance in different policy domains. Findings show that inconsistencies and conflicts are inevitable, these aspects can be counterbalanced by consistency in implementation and by credibility and clear communication from policy makers.

The dual drivetrain model of digital transformation: role of industrial big-data-based affordance

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Liu ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Zuopeng (Justin) Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Industrial Big Data ◽  
Technology Affordance ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeTo better understand the role of industrial big data in promoting digital transformation, the authors propose a theoretical framework of industrial big-data-based affordance in the form of an illustrative metaphor – what the authors call the “organizational drivetrain.”Design/methodology/approachThis study investigates the effective use of industrial big data in the process of digital transformation based on the technology affordance–actualization theoretical lens. A software platform and services provider with more than 4,000 industrial enterprise clients in China was selected as the case study object for analyzing the digital affordance and actualization driven by industrial big data.FindingsDrawing on a revelatory case study, the authors identify three affordances of industrial big data in the organization, namely developing data-driven customized projects, provisioning equipment-data-driven life cycle services, establishing data-based trust and determining affordance actualization actions driven by technology and market. In addition, the authors reveal the underlying drivetrain mechanisms to advance industrial big data affordance and actualization: stabilizing, enriching and pioneering.Originality/valueThis study builds a drivetrain model on digital transformation by industrial big data affordance actualization. The authors also provide practical implications that can help practitioners to implement digital transformation effectively and extract value from their investment.

Reframing construction within the built environment sector

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 740-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard de Valence
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Professional Services ◽  
Special Role ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose Official statistics on the output of the construction industry capture on-site activities of contractors and sub-contractors; however, the role of the industry linking suppliers of materials, machinery, products, services and other inputs is also widely recognised. These two views have been called broad and narrow, with the narrow industry defined as on-site work and the broad industry as the supply chain of materials, products and assemblies, and professional services. An argument is made for using the term “built environment sector” (BES) for the broad industry definition of construction. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Construction industry statistics capture the on-site activities of contractors and sub-contractors. This paper reviews research that adds to construction output the contributions of suppliers of materials, machinery and equipment, products and components, professional services and other inputs required to deliver the buildings and structures that make up the built environment. Findings The same term, “construction”, has been used in a number of ways in different definitional studies of the narrow and broad industry. The term that best encompasses the large number and range of participants in the creation and maintenance of the built environment, from suppliers to end users, is the BES. Research limitations/implications Construction economics makes an important contribution to researching the macroeconomic role of the BES. There is also a special role for construction economics in researching both the boundaries of the BES and the data available on the industries that contribute to the BES. Practical implications Measuring the BES would improve the understanding of its macroeconomic role and significance. Social implications Measuring the BES would contribute to city policies and urban planning. Originality/value The paper proposes a new approach to defining and measuring the industries that contribute to the production, maintenance and management of the built environment. It introduces a new name for the combination of those industries.

Building the Present, Creating the Future

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Menno de Jonge
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

<p>There is an urgent need to transform the way we shape our built environment. Royal BAM Group is taking a leading role in the digital transformation of the industry. We are building the present while we are creating the future. We “make it before we make it”, in other words: we built it digital first, before we built it physically. After a brief introduction to Royal BAM Group, the WHY, the HOW and the WHAT are discussed, including examples of using digital technologies in real projects. The WHY part focusses on the needs of the digital transformation for the construction industry, showing that the world of construction is changing. In the second part, the HOW part, Royal BAM Group’s vision and strategy on the digital transformation is entailed. In the final part, the WHAT part, actual examples from daily practice in BAM are presented. Final conclusions and a summary of the presentation concludes the keynote.</p>

scholarly journals The Impact of Digital Transformation on Innovation and Performance in Companies—Nestle Lebanon Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. p112
Author(s):  
Mohammad Yassine ◽  
Prof. Mohammad Diab ◽  
Dr. Slim Hadad
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Employee Training ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

In today’s increasingly competitive and digitized world, the journey of digital transformation is no longer an option for many organizations, but rather, a must. However, there is a wide discussion on the aftermath of Digital Transformation on corporations of various sizes. This is especially true for organizations that introduced employee training and development in parallel with digital transformation, and which faced multiple challenges regarding the introduction of the employees into the new digital phase. This is important to explore further, given the pivotal role of digital transformation in the long-term success of organizations. Using a combination of a theoretical literature review previous studies and a field study, this research aims to explore the impact of Digital Transformation on the performance and innovation in companies through the case study of Nestle Lebanon. It proposes the hypothesis that there is a positive correlation with statistical significance between accomplishing Digital Transformation and enhancing the performance in Nestle Lebanon.

MATERIAL HANDLING MACHINES AND SYSTEMS – UMI-TWINN PROJECT CONTRIBUTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Péter Telek ◽  
Béla Illés ◽  
Christian Landschützer ◽  
Fabian Schenk ◽  
Flavien Massi
Keyword(s):  
Material Handling ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Flow Process ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Scientific Excellence ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
New Research ◽  
Eu Project ◽  
The University

Nowadays, the Industry 4.0 concept affects every area of the industrial, economic, social and personal sectors. The most significant changings are the automation and the digitalization. This is also true for the material handling processes, where the handling systems use more and more automated machines; planning, operation and optimization of different logistic processes are based on many digital data collected from the material flow process. However, new methods and devices require new solutions which define new research directions. In this paper we describe the state of the art of the material handling researches and draw the role of the UMi-TWINN partner institutes in these fields. As a result of this H2020 EU project, scientific excellence of the University of Miskolc can be increased and new research activities will be started.

Illustrated Media, the Built Environment and Identity Politics in Fin-de-siècle Catalonia: Printing Images, Making the Nation

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
Lucila Mallart
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This article explores the role of visuality in the identity politics of fin-de-siècle Catalonia. It engages with the recent reevaluation of the visual, both as a source for the history of modern nation-building, and as a constitutive element in the emergence of civic identities in the liberal urban environment. In doing so, it offers a reading of the mutually constitutive relationship of the built environment and the print media in late-nineteenth century Catalonia, and explores the role of this relation as the mechanism by which the so-called ‘imagined communities’ come to exist. Engaging with debates on urban planning and educational policies, it challenges established views on the interplay between tradition and modernity in modern nation-building, and reveals long-term connections between late-nineteenth-century imaginaries and early-twentieth-century beliefs and practices.

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