Digital twin-based progress monitoring management model through reality capture to extended reality technologies (DRX)

Purpose The purpose of this research is to develop a generic framework of a digital twin (DT)-based automated construction progress monitoring through reality capture to extended reality (RC-to-XR). Design/methodology/approach IDEF0 data modeling method has been designed to establish an integration of reality capturing technologies by using BIM, DTs and XR for automated construction progress monitoring. Structural equation modeling (SEM) method has been used to test the proposed hypotheses and develop the skill model to examine the reliability, validity and contribution of the framework to understand the DRX model's effectiveness if implemented in real practice. Findings The research findings validate the positive impact and importance of utilizing technology integration in a logical framework such as DRX, which provides trustable, real-time, transparent and digital construction progress monitoring. Practical implications DRX system captures accurate, real-time and comprehensive data at construction stage, analyses data and information precisely and quickly, visualizes information and reports in a real scale environment, facilitates information flows and communication, learns from itself, historical data and accessible online data to predict future actions, provides semantic and digitalize construction information with analytical capabilities and optimizes decision-making process. Originality/value The research presents a framework of an automated construction progress monitoring system that integrates BIM, various reality capturing technologies, DT and XR technologies (VR, AR and MR), arraying the steps on how these technologies work collaboratively to create, capture, generate, analyze, manage and visualize construction progress data, information and reports.

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The purpose of this research is to develop a generic framework for automated construction progress monitoring through reality capture to extended reality (RC-to-XR). IDEF0 data modeling method is used to integrate reality capturing technologies, such as BIM, DT, and XR, and structural equation modeling (SEM) method is used to validate the proposed framework. The findings validate the positive impact and importance of technology integration for reliable, real-time, transparent, and digital construction progress monitoring. The practical implications include accurate data capturing, precise analysis, visualization in a real scale environment, information flow and communication facilitation, predictive capabilities, digitalization of construction information, and optimized decision-making process.