Towards a Holistic, Self-Organised Safety Framework for Construction

In this short vision paper we outline a framework incorporating multi-modal sensory information into so-called digital twins in construction sites. Starting from a first-order principle model (i.e., the construction plan), we enrich the digital twin during runtime with additional information such as work plans, identified and mitigated hazard zones, and current location of workers, resources, and mobile equipment. Utilising this information in the digital twin allows executing simulations to predict potentially dangerous situations for workers. Feedback mechanisms allow us to inform workers accordingly but also improve the construction site and the corresponding digital twin during the building process in an autonomous and self-organised fashion.