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7th International Project and Construction Management Conference, İstanbul, Turkey, 20 - 22 October 2022, pp.821-833
Effective construction management plays a significant role in overcoming challenges the
industry faces including low efficiency and productivity, inability to control processes, low
profit, etc. In the digital transformation era, several interrelated aspects such as competition,
changing customer demands, new generation employees and stakeholders, presented new
instruments which have started to become widespread in construction management.
Extensively applied in the automotive and manufacturing industries, Digital Twin (DT) has
emerged as a technology-based innovation as one of the advances of the digitalization
journey to improve and support construction practices. DT is a virtual system that brings
design, construction, and operation together by data-linking to its real and physical assets
bidirectionally with combined technologies. To answer key questions -namely “What is the
definition of Digital Twin (DT)?”, “What are the elements, technologies, and applications of
DT in the construction industry?”, and “How DT can be used for enhanced construction
management?”- a synthesis of the digital twin literature through the lens of construction
management will be made and the high potential of DT to improve construction management
practices will be demonstrated. Furthermore, the frequency of consideration of DT practices
and the level of awareness in the industry will be increased.