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  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,509 Views
43 Pages

29 November 2022

In any industry, Equipment Asset Management (EAM) is at the core of the production activities. With the rapid development of Industrial Internet technologies and platforms, the EAM based on the Industrial Internet has become an important development...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2,404 Views
4 Pages

Sustainability and Resilience of Engineering Assets

  • Nuno Marques de Almeida and
  • Adolfo Crespo Márquez

31 December 2023

The frequency and severity of natural or human-induced disaster events, such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, pandemics, hazardous material spills, groundwater contamination, structural failures, explosions, etc., as well as their impacts,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,012 Views
16 Pages

In recent years, reliability engineering has seen significant growth in data-driven modeling, mainly due to the democratization of sensing technologies, big data processing, and computing capabilities. It has also seen a paradigm shift, with Engineer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,800 Views
19 Pages

Challenges in Asset Management and Digital Twins: Industry Insights

  • Abdelmoneim Mohamed Abdelmoti,
  • Muhammad Tariq Shafiq,
  • Abdul Rauf and
  • Malik Mansoor Ali Khalfan

Effective asset management in the architecture, engineering, and construction/facilities management (AEC/FM) industry is crucial for improving asset performance and lifespan, as well as reducing downtimes and maintenance costs. Current asset manageme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
894 Views
31 Pages

13 November 2025

In smart home projects, building data management at the design stage increasingly relies on digital-twin assets delivered via game engines. Without a clear governance workflow, however, these practices tend to generate non-standard building data on t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,802 Views
25 Pages

29 October 2021

Linear infrastructure such as roads, railways, bridges and tunnels enable critical functionality within and between metropolitan and regional cities and towns, facilitating the movement of goods and services, as part of vibrant, thriving economies. H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
10,608 Views
22 Pages

6 April 2023

The treatment of big data as well as the rapid improvement in the speed of data processing are facilitated by the parallelization of computations, cloud computing as well as the increasing number of artificial intelligence techniques. These developme...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
14,138 Views
22 Pages

Digital Twin Technology in Built Environment: A Review of Applications, Capabilities and Challenges

  • Yalda Mousavi,
  • Zahra Gharineiat,
  • Armin Agha Karimi,
  • Kevin McDougall,
  • Adriana Rossi and
  • Sara Gonizzi Barsanti

10 September 2024

Digital Twin (DT) technology is a pivotal innovation within the built environment industry, facilitating digital transformation through advanced data integration and analytics. DTs have demonstrated significant benefits in building design, constructi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,529 Views
32 Pages

15 April 2020

The outburst of population as well as increasing industrialisation have triggered a very prominent imbalance between electricity demand and supply in emerging economies such as Indonesia. Based on this premise, electricity generation and distribution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,747 Views
18 Pages

Leveraging Failure Modes and Effect Analysis for Technical Language Processing

  • Mathieu Payette,
  • Georges Abdul-Nour,
  • Toualith Jean-Marc Meango,
  • Miguel Diago and
  • Alain Côté

With the evolution of data collection technologies, sensor-generated data have become the norm. However, decades of manually recorded maintenance data still hold untapped value. Natural Language Processing (NLP) offers new ways to extract insights fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,892 Views
14 Pages

6 February 2024

This research looks into a systemic impact factor (SIF) as a complement to enhance the prescriptive capabilities of electric substations with the objective of improving the reliability and robustness of components. As electrical networks become incre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,424 Views
17 Pages

10 November 2021

Technological progress, upcoming cyber-physical systems, and limited resources confront small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with the challenge of complexity management in product development projects spanning over the entire product lifecycle....

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
9,110 Views
20 Pages

Remedial Modelling of Steel Bridges through Application of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)

  • Maria Rashidi,
  • Maryam Ghodrat,
  • Bijan Samali,
  • Brett Kendall and
  • Chunwei Zhang

10 February 2017

The deterioration and failure of steel bridges around the world is of growing concern for asset managers and bridge engineers due to aging, increasing volume of traffic and introduction of heavier vehicles. Hence, a model that considers these heurist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,271 Views
14 Pages

24 April 2021

Asset management is not new, and research has been conducted in private and public sectors on how to systematically maintain infrastructure or facilities for sustainable use and achieve the level of service desired by users or customers at the lowest...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,577 Views
4 Pages

29 December 2023

Engineers, planners, asset managers, materials suppliers, contractors, and policymakers are focused on improving pavement infrastructure sustainability, and increasingly considering climate change resilience. This focus is often on materials; however...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
10,264 Views
24 Pages

Methodology and Tools for Digital Twin Management—The FA3ST Approach

  • Ljiljana Stojanovic,
  • Thomas Usländer,
  • Friedrich Volz,
  • Christian Weißenbacher,
  • Jens Müller,
  • Michael Jacoby and
  • Tino Bischoff

26 November 2021

The concept of digital twins (DT) has already been discussed some decades ago. Digital representations of physical assets are key components in industrial applications as they are the basis for decision making. What is new is the conceptual approach...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,386 Views
12 Pages

The concept of risk assessment is an important tool in the asset integrity management of power distribution systems. This manuscript presents a risk-based asset integrity management (RBAIM) methodology for the optimization of power distribution asset...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
10,768 Views
17 Pages

Sustainable Water Infrastructure Asset Management: A Gap Analysis of Customer and Service Provider Perspectives

  • Sangjong Han,
  • Hwankook Hwang,
  • Seonghoon Kim,
  • Gyu Seok Baek and
  • Joonhong Park

29 September 2015

The ultimate goal of urban water infrastructure asset management may be sustainable water supply with satisfaction for customers. In this work, we attempted to evaluate the gaps between the perspectives of customers and service providers in Korea’s w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
925 Views
23 Pages

Equipment renewal and replacement strategy as well as smart capital investment is a vital focus in engineering asset management, particularly for water utilities aiming to improve asset reliability, water quality, service continuity and affordability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,779 Views
20 Pages

A Systematic Modelling Procedure to Design Agent-Oriented Control to Coalition of Capabilities—In the Context of I4.0 as Virtual Assets (AAS)

  • Jackson T. Veiga,
  • Marcosiris A. O. Pessoa,
  • Fabrício Junqueira,
  • Paulo E. Miyagi and
  • Diolino J. dos Santos Filho

28 November 2021

Manufacturing systems need to meet Industry 4.0 (I4.0) guidelines to deal with uncertainty in scenarios of turbulent demand for products. The engineering concepts to define the service’s resources to manufacture the products will be more flexib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,614 Views
20 Pages

21 February 2025

The civil engineering sector operates within a complex ecosystem of stakeholders, requiring efficient management and maintenance of structural and infrastructural assets. In this context, there is an increasing need for robust tools to track critical...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,334 Views
7 Pages

15 October 2021

Corrosion and maintenance anomaly and integrity management systems (AIMS) are now the foundation of many industrial and engineering systems regarding sustainability and long-lasting assets. The oil and gas industry has started developing new, integra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,826 Views
28 Pages

Reshaping the Digital Twin Construct with Levels of Digital Twinning (LoDT)

  • João Vieira,
  • João Poças Martins,
  • Nuno Marques de Almeida,
  • Hugo Patrício and
  • João Morgado

30 November 2023

While digital twins (DTs) have achieved significant visibility, they continue to face a problem of lack of harmonisation regarding their interpretation and definition. This diverse and interchangeable use of terms makes it challenging for scientific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
12,086 Views
30 Pages

22 April 2024

This study uses a wind turbine case study as a subdomain of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to showcase an architecture for implementing a distributed digital twin in which all important aspects of a predictive maintenance solution in a DT use a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
11,383 Views
18 Pages

Agile methods and software product line engineering (SPLE) are widely recognized as practical approaches for delivering high-quality software, adapting to evolving stakeholder needs, and tackling complex problems. This study proposes a hybrid agile s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,092 Views
16 Pages

Managing the Performance of Asset Acquisition and Operation with Decision Support Tools

  • Susan Lattanzio,
  • Linda Newnes,
  • Marcelle McManus and
  • Derrick Dunkley

9 June 2020

Decision support tools (DSTs) are increasingly being used to assist with asset acquisition and management decisions. Whether these tools are “fit for purpose” will have both economic and non-economic implications. Despite this, the on-going governanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
944 Views
21 Pages

8 August 2025

This research aimed to develop a comprehensive decision-making model for road rehabilitation, with the goals of extending pavement service life, minimizing major repairs, and improving the efficiency of investment and resource planning. The proposed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,457 Views
47 Pages

24 February 2025

Historic Building Information Modelling (HBIM) is the application of BIM, a digital information management and 3D modelling technique, to cultural heritage (CH) assets. It will assist with the ongoing sustainable management of CH in line with the Uni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,894 Views
22 Pages

An efficient and robust solution for 3D indoor reconstruction is crucial for various managerial operations in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sector, such as indoor asset tracking and facility management. Conventional approaches...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,671 Views
17 Pages

Complex System Governance as a Framework for Asset Management

  • Polinpapilinho F. Katina,
  • James C. Pyne,
  • Charles B. Keating and
  • Dragan Komljenovic

29 July 2021

Complex system governance (CSG) is an emerging field encompassing a framework for system performance improvement through the purposeful design, execution, and evolution of essential metasystem functions. The goal of this study was to understand how t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
137 Citations
17,033 Views
18 Pages

24 November 2021

To facilitate the adoption of the circular economy (CE) in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector, some authors have demonstrated the potential of recent designs that take into account the sustainable management of an asset&rsquo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,821 Views
18 Pages

Practical Approach to Underground Distribution Power Cable Fleet Management

  • Pranav Pattabi,
  • Ali Naderian Jahromi,
  • Shanon Lo,
  • Kurtis Martin-Sturmey and
  • Nirvaan Bhagwandass

19 April 2023

With the growing requirements imposed by regulatory authorities, grid operators and power utilities firms are confronted with the challenging task of ensuring the reliability, safety, and resilience of distribution networks amid aging asset infrastru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,098 Views
26 Pages

Machine Learning (ML) is increasingly applied across various domains, addressing tasks such as predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and decision-making. Many of these applications share similar underlying tasks, offering potential for systematic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,863 Views
16 Pages

Quantifying the Financial Impact of Climate Change on Australian Local Government Roads

  • Jacqueline Balston,
  • Steven Li,
  • Ivan Iankov,
  • Jon Kellett and
  • Geoff Wells

Australia’s 560 Councils are responsible for assets worth approximately $270 billion, many of which have a life span >50 years and so will be affected by climate change. Maintenance and replacement of Council infrastructure is guided by principles...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,082 Views
16 Pages

Assessing the Time-Frequency Co-Movements among the Five Largest Engineering Consulting Companies: A Wavelet-Base Metrics of Contagion and VaR Ratio

  • Marcos Albuquerque Junior,
  • José António Filipe,
  • Paulo de Melo Jorge Neto and
  • Cristiano da Costa da Silva

1 March 2021

Diversification in a portfolio is an important tool for the systematic risk management that is inherent to different asset classes. The composition of a portfolio with domestic and international assets is seen as one of the main alternatives for buil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
9,839 Views
16 Pages

The advent of wireless sensors and internet of things connectivity combined with increased open source cloud based digital sharing among the architecture, engineering, and construction industry has helped expand the range of applications for building...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
60 Citations
10,227 Views
9 Pages

Achieving Urban Flood Resilience in an Uncertain Future

  • Richard Fenner,
  • Emily O’Donnell,
  • Sangaralingam Ahilan,
  • David Dawson,
  • Leon Kapetas,
  • Vladimir Krivtsov,
  • Sikhululekile Ncube and
  • Kim Vercruysse

24 May 2019

Preliminary results of the UK Urban Flood Resilience research consortium are presented and discussed, with the work being conducted against a background of future uncertainties with respect to changing climate and increasing urbanization. Adopting a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,724 Views
22 Pages

A SOA-Based Engineering Process Model for the Life Cycle Management of System-of-Systems in Industry 4.0

  • Gianvito Urgese,
  • Paolo Azzoni,
  • Jan van Deventer,
  • Jerker Delsing,
  • Alberto Macii and
  • Enrico Macii

1 August 2022

The evolution of industrial digitalisation has accelerated in recent years with the availability of hyperconnectivity, low-cost miniaturised electronic components, edge computing, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. More generally, with these...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,327 Views
22 Pages

A Real-Time Decision Platform for the Management of Structures and Infrastructures

  • Massimo Merenda,
  • Filippo Giammaria Praticò,
  • Rosario Fedele,
  • Riccardo Carotenuto and
  • Francesco Giuseppe Della Corte

17 October 2019

Natural disasters and the poor management of civil engineering structures and infrastructures require timely action and new tools such as specially designed structural health monitoring platforms. This paper proposes an innovative platform based on a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,488 Views
21 Pages

Risk-Informed Performance-Based Metrics for Evaluating the Structural Safety and Serviceability of Constructed Assets against Natural Disasters

  • Nuno Marques de Almeida,
  • Maria João Falcão Silva,
  • Filipa Salvado,
  • Hugo Rodrigues and
  • Damjan Maletič

24 May 2021

The tangible and intangible value derived from the built environment is of great importance. This raises concerns related to the resilience of constructed assets to both human-made and natural disasters. Consideration of these concerns is present in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,698 Views
24 Pages

Application of TLS Method in Digitization of Bridge Infrastructures: A Path to BrIM Development

  • Masoud Mohammadi,
  • Maria Rashidi,
  • Vahid Mousavi,
  • Yang Yu and
  • Bijan Samali

25 February 2022

Over the past years, bridge inspection practices and condition assessments were predicated upon long-established manual and paper-based data collection methods which were generally unsafe, time-consuming, imprecise, and labor-intensive, influenced by...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,152 Views
11 Pages

12 April 2022

This article aims at analyzing the historic development of infrastructure asset management (IAM) resulting from the increase of challenges over time. Furthermore, it aims at suggesting the corresponding requirements for the enrichment of educational...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,422 Views
18 Pages

Visualizing building assets within building information modeling (BIM) offers significant opportunities in facility management as it can assist the maintenance and the safety of buildings. Nevertheless, taking decisions based on 3D visualization rema...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,310 Views
23 Pages

24 November 2020

The IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) open format has been developed by BuildingSMART and regularized through ISO standards. It has been implemented into a BIM (Building Information Modeling) informative system for the AEC industry (Architecture Engi...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,367 Views
14 Pages

18 March 2021

Soil bioengineering includes the sustainable use of vegetation for civil engineering purposes, including addressing climate change challenges. Previous research in this area has been focused on determination of the strength and stability that vegetat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,224 Views
11 Pages

Factors in the Relationship between Maintenance Engineering and Knowledge Management

  • Javier Cárcel-Carrasco,
  • José-Antonio Cárcel-Carrasco and
  • Elisa Peñalvo-López

18 April 2020

The mechanisms of transmission and management of knowledge are mostly created by maintenance and exploitation activities of large buildings and industrial facilities, but they are poorly studied due to the difficulty capturing themas they belong to t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,136 Views
31 Pages

19 July 2023

Adapting outdated building stocks’ operations to meet current environmental and economic demands poses significant challenges that, to be faced, require a shift toward digitalization in the architecture, engineering, construction, and operation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,821 Views
16 Pages

Bayesian Estimation for Reliability Engineering: Addressing the Influence of Prior Choice

  • Leonardo Leoni,
  • Farshad BahooToroody,
  • Saeed Khalaj,
  • Filippo De Carlo,
  • Ahmad BahooToroody and
  • Mohammad Mahdi Abaei

Over the last few decades, reliability analysis has attracted significant interest due to its importance in risk and asset integrity management. Meanwhile, Bayesian inference has proven its advantages over other statistical tools, such as maximum lik...

  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
12,861 Views
22 Pages

Digital Twins for Managing Railway Bridge Maintenance, Resilience, and Climate Change Adaptation

  • Sakdirat Kaewunruen,
  • Mohannad AbdelHadi,
  • Manwika Kongpuang,
  • Withit Pansuk and
  • Alex M. Remennikov

26 December 2022

Innovative digital twins (DTs) that allow engineers to visualise, share information, and monitor the condition during operation is necessary to optimise railway construction and maintenance. Building Information Modelling (BIM) is an approach for cre...

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