ABSTRACT
The building sector causes almost 40% of global CO2 emissions and is therefore the key to central climate neutrality by 2050. This chapter discusses innovative technologies in Construction enabling intelligent ecosystems with more efficiency, comfort and safety for human work. BIM, digital twins and emerging technologies such as AI are not only key drivers for the building’s holistic lifecycle and the sustainability performance but also facilitate societal transformation and strengthen resilient ecosystems by recognizing ethical digital responsibilities. They enable decision-making processes by visualizing the planned final end product with its technical operation. Potential consequences of its functions, risk hazards, environmental and societal impacts, the user’s behaviour, energy consumption and the building’s lifecycle can be simulated – with focus on the overall Energy and Sustainable Economic Development and SDGs. However, digital twins lay the foundation to take decisions and act within agile environments based on consolidated planning results in one common data environment. Representing a consolidated coordination modelling in which all relevant data and data interfaces are brought together centrally, a digital twin adds significant value towards the Building Lifecycle. Thus, digital transformation can be shaped collaboratively and sustainably to master its chances and challenges in practice.
