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The BIM maturity process to the digital twin for lean strategic facility management (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Mbabu, A., Underwood, J., & Munir, M. (2023). The BIM maturity process to the digital twin for lean strategic facility management. . https://doi.org/10.35490/EC3.2023.325

Digital twins are increasingly popular in the built environment for addressing unique challenges through tailored use cases. One such application is in decision support and management for strategic facility management. Employing design science resear... Read More about The BIM maturity process to the digital twin for lean strategic facility management.

Digital Technologies for Construction Circular Economy (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Underwood, J., Ferriz-Papi, J., & Theodoridis, T. (2023, July). Digital Technologies for Construction Circular Economy. Presented at Salford Postgraduate Annual Research Conference (SPARC), Salford, UK

The construction industry is vital for global economic growth, but it faces the challenge of delivering the built environment efficiently and sustainably. This sector consumes large amounts of raw materials and generates significant waste, with the U... Read More about Digital Technologies for Construction Circular Economy.

Building-as-a-service: theoretical foundations and conceptual framework (2022)
Journal Article
Wildenauer, A., Mbabu, A. M., Underwood, J., & Basl, J. (2022). Building-as-a-service: theoretical foundations and conceptual framework. Buildings, 12(10), https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12101594

The provision of data with information management are a significant challenge for the digital developing construction industry. The utilisation of data from a built asset’s planning, design, and construction phases to the operations phase core and to... Read More about Building-as-a-service: theoretical foundations and conceptual framework.

A Proposed Digital Twin Framework to Enable Lean Strategic Facility Management (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Mbabu, A., Underwood, J., & Munir, M. (2022). A Proposed Digital Twin Framework to Enable Lean Strategic Facility Management.

The concept of bringing a strategic approach to facility management is gaining traction as organizations are becoming more cognizant of the strong relationship between the built assets that facility managers are responsible for managing and the organ... Read More about A Proposed Digital Twin Framework to Enable Lean Strategic Facility Management.

The benefits of BIM use to improve information flow; making the design process more leaner (2022)
Thesis
Mollasalehi, S. The benefits of BIM use to improve information flow; making the design process more leaner. (Thesis). University of Salford

The construction industry faces many problems, such as poor productivity and efficiency, that mainly occur during the design process. Many construction problems associated with the design process are due to a lack of effective information flow manage... Read More about The benefits of BIM use to improve information flow; making the design process more leaner.

A lean strategic FM service model based on the digital twin (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Mbabu, A., Underwood, J., & Munir, M. (2022). A lean strategic FM service model based on the digital twin. In ECPPM 2022 - eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction 2022. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003354222-31

The construction industry is committed to improving whole-life performance and minimising waste in building delivery and operations. The construction industry continues to explore Lean and now the digital twin concept from more productive cross-secto... Read More about A lean strategic FM service model based on the digital twin.

An investigation of work-based education and training needs for effective BIM adoption and implementation : an organisational upskilling model (2021)
Journal Article
Semaan, J., Underwood, J., & Hyde, J. (2021). An investigation of work-based education and training needs for effective BIM adoption and implementation : an organisational upskilling model. Applied Sciences, 11(18), e8646. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11188646

Research reveals that organisations in general are keen to provide their staff with the support needed to boost their competency in BIM and subsequently leverage the effectiveness of its implementation. However, employers need a decision-making tool... Read More about An investigation of work-based education and training needs for effective BIM adoption and implementation : an organisational upskilling model.

Handbook of research on driving transformational change in the digital built environment (2021)
Book
Underwood, J., & Shelbourn, M. (2021). J. Underwood, & M. Shelbourn (Eds.), Handbook of research on driving transformational change in the digital built environment. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6600-8

The construction industry is amidst a digital transformation that is focused on addressing well-documented issues and calls for significant improvements and changes through increased productivity, whole-life value, client focus, reduction of waste, a... Read More about Handbook of research on driving transformational change in the digital built environment.

Transforming the productivity of people in the built environment : emergence of a digital competency management ecosystem (2021)
Book Chapter
Underwood, J., Shelbourn, M., Carlton, D., Zhao, G., Simpson, M., Aksenova, G., & Mollasalehi, S. (2021). Transforming the productivity of people in the built environment : emergence of a digital competency management ecosystem. In J. Underwood, & M. Shelbourn (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Driving Transformational Change in the Digital Built Environment (430-466). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6600-8.ch017

This chapter explores how we create and support a digitally enabled, agile, competent, and ultimately, productive workforce and determines the key research questions that need to be addressed if Digital Built Britain (DBB) is to provide return on inv... Read More about Transforming the productivity of people in the built environment : emergence of a digital competency management ecosystem.