Digital Twins for Intelligent Green Buildings

• Published in: Buildings (Basel) Vol. 12; no. 6; p. 856
• Main Authors: Yang, Bin, Lv, Zhihan, Wang, Faming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01-06-2022
• Subjects: Architecture; Asset management; Building automation; Building construction; Carbon; Cities; Construction industry; Development strategies; Digital Twins; Efficiency; Energy conservation; Green buildings; Green development; Industrial development; information interaction; Infrastructure; Innovations; Integration; Intelligent Green Building; Operations management; R&D; real-time visualization; Research & development; Reviews; Smart buildings; smart city; Sustainability; Sustainable development; Trends; Urban development
• ISSN: 2075-5309; 2075-5309
• DOI: 10.3390/buildings12060856

At present, the integration of green building, the intelligent building industry and high-quality development are facing a series of new opportunities and challenges. This review aims to analyze the digital development of smart green buildings to make it easier to create contiguous ecological development areas in green ecological cities. It sorts out the main contents of Intelligent Green Buildings (IGB) and summarizes the application and role of Digital Twins (DTs) in intelligent buildings. Firstly, the basic connotations and development direction of IGB are deeply discussed, and the current realization and applications of IGB are analyzed. Then, the advantages of DTs are further investigated in the context of IGB for DT smart cities. Finally, the development trends and challenges of IGB are analyzed. After a review and research, it is found that the realization and application of IGB have been implemented, but the application of DTs remains not quite integrated into the design of IGB. Therefore, a forward-looking design is required when designing the IGBs, such as prioritizing sustainable development, people’s livelihoods and green structures. At the same time, an IGB can only show its significance after the basic process of building the application layer is performed correctly. Therefore, this review contributes to the proper integration of IGB and urban development strategies, which are crucial to encouraging the long-term development of cities, thus providing a theoretical basis and practical experience for promoting the development of smart cities.