Digital Twin Technology and Social Sustainability: Implications for the Construction Industry

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(19), P. 8663 - 8663

Published: Oct. 7, 2024

To date, a plethora of research has been published investigating the value using Digital Twin (DT) technology in construction industry. However, contribution DT to promoting social sustainability industry largely unexplored. Therefore, current paper aims address this gap by exploring untapped potential advancing within end, comprehensive systematic literature review was conducted, which identified 298 relevant studies. These studies were subsequently analysed with respect their use supporting sustainability. The findings indicated that contributed 8 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), strong focus on SDG11 (77 publications), followed SDG3 and SDG9, 58 48 studies, respectively, focusing health well-being fostering resilient infrastructure innovation. Other contributions for SDG13 (30 studies), SDG7 (27 SDG12 (26 SDG4 (21 SDG6 (11 covering areas such as climate action, responsible consumption, affordable energy, quality education, clean water sanitation. This also proposes future directions further enhance include (i) enhancing inclusivity diversity, (ii) workforce safety well-being, (iii) training skill development, (iv) policy regulatory support, (v) cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Language: Английский

Promoting renewables in the construction industry through policy: the Australian context

Elsevier eBooks, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 259 - 276

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский