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Digital twins in the built environment : fundamentals, principles and applications / Qiuchen Lu, Xiang Xie, Ajith Kumar Parlikad, Jennifer Schooling and Michael Pitt.

By: Lu, Qiuchen [author].
Contributor(s): Xie, Xiang [author] | Parlikad, Ajith [author] | Schooling, J. M. (Jennifer M.) [author] | Pitt, Michael [author].
Publisher: London : ICE Publishing, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: xii, 362 pages : illustrations, tables ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780727765802 (hardback).Subject(s): Digital twins (Computer simulation) | Building information modelingDDC classification: 720.285
Contents:
Introduction -- Definitions and principles of digital twins -- Overview of typical digital twin implementations: capabilities, drivers and gemini principles -- System architecture of digital twins -- Data acquisitions -- Data transmissions -- Digital modelling layer: two digital modelling methods - Part 1: Scan-to-BIM approaches: review in a holistic workflow -- Part 2: Review of geometric digital twinning approaches based on photogrammetry -- Data-model integration layer -- Services layer -- Integrating digital twins with other digital technologies - Part 1 : Visualised inspection system for monitoring environmental anomalies during daily operation and maintenance -- Part 2: QR code supported digital twins for maintenance prioritisation -- Case studies: digital twin implementation at the system level -- Case studies: digital twin implementation at the building level -- Case studies: digital twin implementations at the regional and city levels - Part 1: City-scale digital twin prototype for Cambridge Biomedical Campus -- Part 2:Smart Poli, China - a study study of digital twin application in city governance and services, based on city information modelling -- Digital twin built environment: future prospects.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Digital Twins in the Built Environment offers a new, comprehensive, systematic and clear view of digital twin development in the architecture, engineering, construction and facilities management sectors. It will help you to uncover the implementation and development of digital twins work and understand how to operate and maintain digital twin assets, buildings and cities.

Using a structured approach, the book explains how to create and use digital twins effectively including principles, system architecture, data structure and creation methods for the five layers needed (data acquisition, data transmission, digital model, data/model integration, and services). This is underpinned with real life cases studies of digital twin implementation at asset, building and city levels, revealing every angle that a digital twin can take.

This book will cover

the definitions and principles of digital twins overviews of typical digital twin implementations system architecture of digital twins five layers of the developed architecture: data acquisition, transmission, digital modelling, data/model integration, and services extension with other technologies practical cases at asset, building and city levels. This book is an essential read for built environment professionals including asset owners, consultants, facility managers, contractors, designers, policymakers and researchers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Definitions and principles of digital twins -- Overview of typical digital twin implementations: capabilities, drivers and gemini principles -- System architecture of digital twins -- Data acquisitions -- Data transmissions -- Digital modelling layer: two digital modelling methods - Part 1: Scan-to-BIM approaches: review in a holistic workflow -- Part 2: Review of geometric digital twinning approaches based on photogrammetry -- Data-model integration layer -- Services layer -- Integrating digital twins with other digital technologies - Part 1 : Visualised inspection system for monitoring environmental anomalies during daily operation and maintenance -- Part 2: QR code supported digital twins for maintenance prioritisation -- Case studies: digital twin implementation at the system level -- Case studies: digital twin implementation at the building level -- Case studies: digital twin implementations at the regional and city levels - Part 1: City-scale digital twin prototype for Cambridge Biomedical Campus -- Part 2:Smart Poli, China - a study study of digital twin application in city governance and services, based on city information modelling -- Digital twin built environment: future prospects.