The Development of Digital Twin Datasets to Assess Building Usage: A Case Study of Overseas Building of the Department of Consular Affairs

Abstract

Good space management can make various areas within the building achieve their full potential and be used in a cost-effective manner. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has offices located around the world. There are a lot of physical resources that need to be looked after. The Property Management Office is responsible for taking care of its assets, which can be divided into the real estate and the movable property which always need maintenance. The objective of this research is to study and develop the data sets required by digital twin technology for space management. The Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for taking care of Thai people living in that country, thereby making it a very important part. The consular area can be divided into 3 types: public area, semi-public space and personal areas. These 3 areas have problems arising from 2 main issues: the physical issues and management issues. In this research, an approach was developed to find the required data sets for digital twin technology to evaluate the use of building space in order to apply it to the management of physical resources in the area of ​​remote area management, with the aim of achieving fast, accurate and cost-effective management. Because digital twin technology has unique functions which are a real-time data update and a remote data update, it is appropriate for taking care of area management. By studying as-built drawings and interviewing, it can be concluded that studying the functioning of digital twin technology at the descriptive level is enough and using data from this level to evaluate the efficiency of building space usage. The descriptive level data is divided into 2 types which are Static data and Dynamic data. The necessary Static data from this research include room area, room capacity, area per person, and the number of hours the room should be used in one week. The necessary dynamic data from this research include the number of hours actually used in one week, the number of employees actually using rooms in one week, and the efficiency of building space utilization. These data can be collected from the actual space by the sensor tools. The results of this research can be used to evaluate the efficiency of building space usage in the consular section.