Digital Twin and Data Visualisation for Collaborative Workspaces

Hossain, M. 2025. Digital Twin and Data Visualisation for Collaborative Workspaces. in: Mallick, Fuad H., Kabir, Saimum and Shafique, Tanzil (ed.) Next 50: Collective Futures, Critical-Creative Perspectives on the Built Environment The University Press Limited (UPL).

Chapter titleDigital Twin and Data Visualisation for Collaborative Workspaces
AuthorsHossain, M.
EditorsMallick, Fuad H., Kabir, Saimum and Shafique, Tanzil
Abstract

This chapter demonstrates the potentiality of implementing the concepts of digital twins and real-time data visualisation for a collaborative and climate-resilient workspace environment in Bangladesh. It indicates how these concepts can be integrated into the existing and new buildings with the help of Building Energy Management System (BEMS) and low powered Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Firstly, the chapter includes field evidence and computer-simulated data of working environments of three factories in Bangladesh revealing the system gaps among building envelope design, environmental condition, workers’ perception and building management. Secondly, it compares them with case studies in a developed country where digital twin, BEMS and IoT technologies are already being implemented and real-time data visualisations are being used by both building users and managers to ensure a collaborative, comfortable and safe working environment. While digital twins, i.e., a digital representation of existing physical buildings and cities, are being implemented in developed countries, this chapter thirdly contextualises these concepts for built environments in tropical Bangladesh through an analytic diagram and illustrates how the real-time data visualisation of the indoor environment, workers’ feedback and work efficiency with smart displays can ensure an energy-efficient, collaborative and climate-resilient working environment. The chapter ends with outlining possible future collaborations and potentials towards climate-resilient and zero-carbon societies.

Book titleNext 50: Collective Futures, Critical-Creative Perspectives on the Built Environment
Year2025
PublisherThe University Press Limited (UPL)
Publication dates
Published01 Jan 2025
ISBN9789845064620
Web address (URL)https://shura.shu.ac.uk/35336/
JournalNext 50: Collective Futures, Critical-Creative Perspectives on the Built Environment

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