BIM2TWIN is a European-funded project aimed to build a Digital Building Twin (DBT) platform for construction management that implements lean principles to reduce operational waste of all kinds, shortening schedules, reducing costs, enhancing quality and safety and reducing carbon footprint. The key objective of the project is to develop a Digital Building Twin platform (DBT) able to provide situational awareness, with a comprehensive, holistic approach. This means that any stakeholder across the construction process is able to get a real-time representation of the status of everything happening on site and throughout the whole supply chain, thanks to a set of construction management applications.
The basic idea at the core of the BIM2TWIN project is to develop a platform able to represent the current status of products and processes through a Project Status Model (PSM). This model shall be populated by real-time monitored data from the site and the supply chain and should be able to manage and process all this data
in an automated way, across the entire lifespan of the project. The information managed by the platform will be interpreted and used by construction managers, thanks to a decision support dashboard for forward planning and real-time control.
The platform will therefore stand as a junction between the monitored data flow and the information made available to the different stakeholders through construction management applications.
In order to coherently manage all the collected data, the platform will rely on a robust system architecture, so that data can be processed to establish a PSM and turned into information for decision-making, providing a reliable tool for monitoring schedules, quantities, budget, quality, safety, and environmental impact.
As the name BIM2TWIN suggest, the Digital Building Twin representation – actually the Project Status Model (PSM) - will be semantically linked to Building Information Model (BIM), including schedule models, logistic models, task models and so on.
The project will implement an interoperable framework based on compatible linkeddata, building a common information backbone for digital twins. Moreover, the project will explore innovative approaches - compared to the state of the art – relying on a property-graph-based cloud data store that provides APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).
