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Integrating Building Information Modelling with Digital Twin technology, known as BIM-DT, can support sustainable construction, but organisations require clear criteria to determine their readiness for adoption. A structural equation modelling framework was developed to evaluate this readiness by examining the relationships between key success factors and sustainability parameters. Findings indicate that sustainability considerations, particularly cost optimisation and resource management, play a pivotal role in deployment. Successful implementation of BIM-DT relies most heavily on several organisational factors: an organisation's overall readiness to adopt the technology, the availability of qualified technology operators, established standards and codes, relevant knowledge and competencies, and adequate financial investment. This structured evaluation helps prioritise the internal resources and capabilities needed before deploying digital twin approaches.
Digital twins offer construction projects better oversight and sustainability, but attempting adoption without adequate preparation can lead to failure. By identifying the critical financial, technical, and regulatory prerequisites, this framework helps construction stakeholders evaluate whether their organisations possess the skills, funding, and procedural standards necessary to implement advanced digital modelling successfully.
The framework is designed for construction firms, project managers, and sustainability planners assessing their preparedness to implement digital twin systems. As an analytical framework identifying success factors and priorities, it sits at an applied research stage. To become commercially operational, it would need translation into practical diagnostic or auditing tools that enterprises can use to assess their financial, operational, and workforce capabilities before making technology investments.
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This study introduces a pioneering structural equation modeling (SEM)-based framework to assess BIM-DT adoption readiness in sustainable construction. The research’s approach delves into the intricate correlation between key success factors (KSFs) and sustainable parameters (SPs), fostering BIM-DT deployment. This interdisciplinary perspective provides a holistic understanding of the impact of KSFs on BIM-DT adoption. The research aims to identify KSFs and parameters, prioritize their relative weights for BIM-DT implementation, analyze KSFs and SPs correlations, and offer practical insights into the findings. The results revealed the importance of sustainability considerations in BIM-DT adoption, with cost optimization and resource management playing pivotal roles. The findings also revealed that the readiness of the organization to adopt the technology, availability of technology operators, availability of standards and codes for the new technology, availability of knowledge, skills, and competencies to adopt the technology, and availability of funds and financial investment are the top-ranked KSFs contributing to the successful adoption of BIM-DT.
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DOI: 10.3390/buildings14010268
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