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Organising digital twin in the built environment: a systematic review and research directions on the missing links of use and user perspectives of digital twin in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector

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  • Perdana Miraj
  • Tong Wang
  • Alexander Koutamanis
  • Paul Chan

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There has been growing interest in the adoption of advanced digital technologies in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector, as shown by the increasing number of review studies on the adoption of Digital Twin (DT) in the sector. While previous reviews on DT in the AEC sector have emphasised the technical opportunities and challenges, reviews that take a specific organisational and management focus on the use of DT are lacking. In this systematic review, we close this gap by analysing 102 papers from three main scientific databases (Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science), which emphasise organisational and management aspects of using DT in the AEC sector across the project and asset lifecycle phases. The findings indicate that, whereas there is still a stronger focus on finding optimisations for various performance concerns (e.g. project efficiency, health and safety and maintenance performance), there is increasing awareness and interest in using DT to encourage collaboration and (end-)user participation. Despite this recognition, our review also identified a number of critical knowledge gaps on the use and user perspectives of DT, which includes how powerful computational tools can be developed into user-friendly interfaces to reduce complexity and increase accessibility to all stakeholders in the decision-making process, and how participatory design frameworks can be combined with structured feedback systems and standardised data access protocols in order to stimulate communication, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision making.

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  • Perdana Miraj & Tong Wang & Alexander Koutamanis & Paul Chan, 2025. "Organising digital twin in the built environment: a systematic review and research directions on the missing links of use and user perspectives of digital twin in Architecture, Engineering and Constru," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(6), pages 465-481, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:conmgt:v:43:y:2025:i:6:p:465-481
    DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2025.2451631
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