Digital twin and its potential applications in construction industry: State-of-art review and a conceptual framework

S Su, RY Zhong, Y Jiang, J Song, Y Fu… - Advanced engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Through the combination of virtual and real, multi-dimensional perception, and accurate
map**, digital twin (DT) could describe the physical world in real-time and provide a …

Strategic approaches towards achieving sustainable and effective building maintenance practices in maintenance-managed buildings: A combination of expert …

A Hauashdh, J Jailani, IA Rahman - Journal of Building Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Buildings have been consistently identified as the sector with the greatest potential to reduce
both energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions through more sustainable …

Automated crack segmentation in close-range building façade inspection images using deep learning techniques

K Chen, G Reichard, X Xu, A Akanmu - Journal of Building Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are frequently used for periodic visual
inspection of building envelopes to detect unsafe conditions or vulnerable damages …

Semi‐supervised learning based on convolutional neural network and uncertainty filter for façade defects classification

J Guo, Q Wang, Y Li - Computer‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Develo** a classifier to identify the defects from façade images using deep learning
requires abundant labeled images. However, it is time‐consuming and uneconomical to …

Analysis of building maintenance requests using a text mining approach: building services evaluation

R Bortolini, N Forcada - Building Research & Information, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
End users' maintenance requests gathered from computerized maintenance management
systems (CMMS) configure a rich source of information to evaluate the occupants' …

The impact of imperfect maintenance actions on the degradation of buildings' envelope components

C Ferreira, A Silva, J De Brito, IS Dias… - Journal of Building …, 2021 - Elsevier
Usually, maintenance models consider maintenance actions as perfect, ie these
interventions can restore the components to the “as good as new” state. However, in many …

Building inspection system for evaluating the technical performance of existing buildings

R Bortolini, N Forcada - Journal of Performance of Constructed …, 2018 - ascelibrary.org
The technical performance assessment of a building is essential for planning maintenance
actions to improve its condition and functionality. The aim of this study is to present a …

Few-shot classification of façade defects based on extensible classifier and contrastive learning

Z Cui, Q Wang, J Guo, N Lu - Automation in Construction, 2022 - Elsevier
Façade defect classification based on deep learning has made great progresses in recent
years. However, deep learning models commonly need abundant labeled data for training …

Evaluation-oriented façade defects detection using rule-based deep learning method

J Guo, Q Wang, Y Li - Automation in Construction, 2021 - Elsevier
Visual evaluation of façade condition plays an important role to ensure the structural health
of the whole building. To automatically achieve visual evaluation of façade condition with …

Service life of building envelopes: A critical literature review

A Silva, J de Brito - Journal of Building Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The importance of knowing the service life of buildings and their components is recognized.
Several studies have been developed, in different countries, to address this research topic …