CURRENT RESEARCH, TRENDS, AND CHALLENGES IN BUILDING EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Abstract

Digital technology has been showing promising outcomes in all phases of construction in pre, current, and post-construction, including facility management. Emergency management is a topic within facility management that also could be improved using digital technologies, particularly for buildings and related asset information models and digital twin. Research in this field is just starting. This paper presents current research, trends, and challenges of building emergency management assisted by digital construction technologies. The outcome of this analysis shows that new technologies and areas of focus are not fully integrated into the deep articulation of facility management sub-fields. The most studied topics include evacuation in case of emergency, damage reports, and repair plans. Eventually, this work leads to identifying the research gaps in the use of BIM and digital technology in the field of emergency management and the challenges required to fill in those gaps.