Digital Twin Hospital Buildings: An Exemplary Case Study through Continuous Lifecycle Integration
Hospital buildings usually contain sophisticated facility systems and special medical equipment, strict security requirements, and business systems. Traditional methods such as BIM are becoming less capable of real-time updates of building status and big data volume. By proposing innovations both in...
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| description | Hospital buildings usually contain sophisticated facility systems and special medical equipment, strict security requirements, and business systems. Traditional methods such as BIM are becoming less capable of real-time updates of building status and big data volume. By proposing innovations both in technique and management—a “continuous lifecycle integration” method based on the concept of Digital Twin (DT) and “early movement” of the general contractor, this paper reported a successful project case in a large hospital in China. The case realized continuous, scheduled integration of static data and dynamic data of more than 20 management systems from the design, construction, pre-O&M phase up to the O&M phase. Then, a DT software system with real-time visual management and artificial intelligent diagnosis modules was developed and deployed in a newly built DT control center. Managers have the ability to grasp the detailed status of the whole hospital by visual management and receive timely facility diagnosis and operation suggestions that are automatically sent back from the digital building to reality. The case has been steadily running for more than a year in the hospital and achieved desired performance by reducing energy consumption, avoiding facility faults, reducing the number of requested repairs, and enhancing the quality of daily maintenance work. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1aeb91f8688b4541aade744a456ad99b2025-02-03T01:06:22ZengWileyAdvances in Civil Engineering1687-80861687-80942020-01-01202010.1155/2020/88466678846667Digital Twin Hospital Buildings: An Exemplary Case Study through Continuous Lifecycle IntegrationYang Peng0Ming Zhang1Fangqiang Yu2Jinglin Xu3Shang Gao4Shanghai Construction No. 4 (Group) Limited Company, Shanghai 201103, ChinaShanghai Construction No. 4 (Group) Limited Company, Shanghai 201103, ChinaShanghai Construction No. 4 (Group) Limited Company, Shanghai 201103, ChinaShanghai Construction No. 4 (Group) Limited Company, Shanghai 201103, ChinaShanghai Construction No. 4 (Group) Limited Company, Shanghai 201103, ChinaHospital buildings usually contain sophisticated facility systems and special medical equipment, strict security requirements, and business systems. Traditional methods such as BIM are becoming less capable of real-time updates of building status and big data volume. By proposing innovations both in technique and management—a “continuous lifecycle integration” method based on the concept of Digital Twin (DT) and “early movement” of the general contractor, this paper reported a successful project case in a large hospital in China. The case realized continuous, scheduled integration of static data and dynamic data of more than 20 management systems from the design, construction, pre-O&M phase up to the O&M phase. Then, a DT software system with real-time visual management and artificial intelligent diagnosis modules was developed and deployed in a newly built DT control center. Managers have the ability to grasp the detailed status of the whole hospital by visual management and receive timely facility diagnosis and operation suggestions that are automatically sent back from the digital building to reality. The case has been steadily running for more than a year in the hospital and achieved desired performance by reducing energy consumption, avoiding facility faults, reducing the number of requested repairs, and enhancing the quality of daily maintenance work.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8846667 |
| spellingShingle | Yang Peng Ming Zhang Fangqiang Yu Jinglin Xu Shang Gao Digital Twin Hospital Buildings: An Exemplary Case Study through Continuous Lifecycle Integration Advances in Civil Engineering |
| title | Digital Twin Hospital Buildings: An Exemplary Case Study through Continuous Lifecycle Integration |
| title_full | Digital Twin Hospital Buildings: An Exemplary Case Study through Continuous Lifecycle Integration |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Digital Twin Hospital Buildings: An Exemplary Case Study through Continuous Lifecycle Integration |
| title_short | Digital Twin Hospital Buildings: An Exemplary Case Study through Continuous Lifecycle Integration |
| title_sort | digital twin hospital buildings an exemplary case study through continuous lifecycle integration |
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