On Thursday, April 11, BUILD UP hosted a webinar organised by the COGITO project on Digital Twin Revolution in the Construction Sector. During the event, project specialists presented the COGITO Digital Construction 4.0 toolbox developed within the last 3 years in the frame of the project, sharing insights and experience from their work. Structured into four sessions, this webinar was the final one out of the series of five events titled ‘Practical Tools for the Construction Sector in Digital Twin’ and organised by the COGITO Team and BUILD UP Platform.

During the first introductory session, Giorgos Giannakis, from Hypertech, provided an overview of aims and objectives from the COGITO project. The second session dealt with the data collections carried out in the two construction pilot sites, in Munich (Germany) and Murcia (Spain). ‘The Munich pilot site lasted one and a half month, and the staging area model for the project was modelled based on georeferenced orthophoto map’, explained Daniel Leeb, from Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group. ‘The Murcia pilot is part of the larger infrastructure project of the Mediterranean corridor, and it consists in undergrounding high speed railway tracks’, complimented Tobias Hanel, from FERROVIAL.

Demonstration results

During the final sessions of the webinar, Giorgos Giannakis mentioned some results that were obtained during the execution of the project on workflow management, quality control and health & safety. ‘The health and safety tools validation started with SafeConAI, which act as a preventive application. SafeConAI enhances the model in two ways: first, by injecting the identified environment features and hazardous spaces into the BIM model, and then by integrating the mitigation measures of the identified hazards’, explained. The event ended with Tobias Hanel and Daniel Leeb presenting some of the key lessons learnt, which all required reliable digitalisation efforts for an efficient work progress and daily inspections.

The webinar ended with an interactive Q&A discussion, facilitating an exchange of questions between the speakers and the audience focusing on the methods employed in the two pilot sites, as well as the registration process for new users of the COGITO applications.