Living Earth -- A Methodology For Modeling The Environment Of
Construction Sites Via Digital Twins
Abstract
The architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry appears
hesitant to embrace new digital innovations. One of the few recent
successful examples is the introduction of the building information
modeling (BIM) paradigm. However, the focus here lies mainly on the
building itself and does not support the construction environment. This
paper presents a methodology for the development and application of
Digital Twins representing and supporting the working environment of a
construction site. By combining available geodata with real-time sensor
data from mobile construction machines, it is possible to create
always-up-to-date Digital Twins of the relevant objects and processes in
the field in order to facilitate supervision, additional planning steps,
management, control and security activities. The proposed concept is
currently being tested on a local test site to generate, update and
adapt the Digital Twins as well as to incorporate additional semantic
information about e.g. the soil and various working processes.