WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14
12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Mini Symposium on Industrialized Construction

location:

1340 Patrick F. Taylor Hall

Industrialized construction has become an established approach to improving project delivery, bringing together manufacturing, modularization, digital technologies, automation, and new ways of organizing design and construction.

The Mini Symposium on Industrialized Construction will bring together academic leaders and researchers to share emerging ideas, research, and experiences shaping this area. A Dean’s Distinguished Lecture, presentations, and discussions will explore how industrialized construction can accelerate project delivery, improve predictability, and enhance productivity, quality, and safety while creating new opportunities for innovation in the delivery of complex facilities.

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Dean's Distinguished Lecturer:
Dr. Chimay AnumbaChimay J. Anumba

FREng, Ph.D., D.Sc., Dr.h.c., CEng/PE, FICE, FIStructE, FASCE, NAC
Dean and Distinguished Professor
College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida

ENHANCED CONSTRUCTION PROJECT DELIVERY USING DIGITAL TWINS

Chimay Anumba is a Distinguished Professor and Dean of the College of Design, Construction and Planning at the University of Florida. A Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, FREng, he holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Leeds, UK; a higher doctorate – D.Sc. (Doctor of Science) - from Loughborough University, UK; and an Honorary Doctorate (Dr.h.c.) from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. He has over 500 scientific publications and his work has received support worth over $160m from a variety of sources. He has also supervised 65 doctoral candidates to completion and mentored over 25 postdoctoral researchers. He is the recipient of the 2018 ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering Award and is a member of the US National Academy of Construction (NAC).

ABSTRACT

The construction industry is increasingly seeking to leverage emerging technologies as it continues its quest for greater levels of productivity, quality, safety, sustainability, and cost effectiveness. In this regard, there has been a growing interest in Digital Twins (DT), which has the capacity to play an important role in transforming the construction project delivery process. Synergistic integration of constructed facilities and their digital representations are now being recognized as vital for, amongst other things, improved construction project information management, more efficient and safer project delivery, increased sustainability, and enhanced facilities management. This requires ensuring effective bi-directional coordination between the digital and physical components. This guest lecture will discuss the background to the growth of digital twins and the parent field of cyber-physical systems (CPS), and will draw on examples from research prototypes to highlight the key features and benefits of DT and the associated applications for buildings and large capital projects. It will also identify opportunities for further development of DTs for a variety of construction applications.