Digital twin approach for maintenance management

After years of slightest attention to the environment, low productivity and least rates of technological innovation, the construction sector has started a slow but in-depth review of its statutes and priorities. The ongoing ecological and digital transition opens to new opportunities connected to the implemental policies of Industry 4.0 – at now Industry 5.0 - and related enabling technologies. Opportunities that strongly reaffirm the need for innovative, responsible and sustainable governance of the life cycle of buildings, placing it in the new perspective of digital twin approach. Starting from this scenario, the paper presents some ongoing upgrade of a Maintenance Management Model expressly aimed at optimizing activities in the Operation & Maintenance phase from which evident economic, environmental and social extra costs arise.