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The rapid evolution of digital technologies has revolutionized the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, driving the wide-spread adoption of digital twins for structures. These virtual replicas, developed using Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodology, incorporate extensive information databases, proving indispensable for enhancing project management throughout a structure's entire lifecycle and towards smart city development. As the impact of climate change continues to grow, hazardous weather alerts play a critical role as an early-warning system that notifies stakeholders of imminent threats, thereby influencing decision-making processes in construction projects. Surprisingly, despite its evident value, the integration of alert systems for hazardous weather conditions into BIM is often overlooked. To fill this gap, this paper proposes Robot Process Automation (RPA) protocols to automate the integration of real-time weather parameters into a structure's BIM models. These very protocols are also used as alert systems, enabling the timely notification of stakeholders in the event of detected hazardous weather conditions. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is demonstrated through its practical application in enhancing the safety of an actual building in Viña del Mar, Chile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rapid evolution of digital technologies has revolutionized the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, driving the wide-spread adoption of digital twins for structures. These virtual replicas, developed using Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodology, incorporate extensive information databases, proving indispensable for enhancing project management throughout a structure’s entire lifecycle and towards smart city development. As the impact of climate change continues to grow, hazardous weather alerts play a critical role as an early-warning system that notifies stakeholders of imminent threats, thereby influencing decision-making processes in construction projects. Surprisingly, despite its evident value, the integration of alert systems for hazardous weather conditions into BIM is often overlooked. To fill this gap, this paper proposes Robot Process Automation (RPA) protocols to automate the integration of real-time weather parameters into a structure’s BIM models. These very protocols are also used as alert systems, enabling the timely notification of stakeholders in the event of detected hazardous weather conditions. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is demonstrated through its practical application in enhancing the safety of an actual building in Viña del Mar, Chile.

The Yangtze River Basin and Huaihe River Basin in Southern China experienced severe floods 1998 and 2016. The reasons for the flooding hazards include the following two factors: hazardous weather conditions and degradation of the hydrological environment due to anthropogenic activities. This review work investigated the weather conditions based on recorded data, which showed that both 1998 and 2016 were in El Nino periods. Human activities include the degradations of rivers and lakes and the effects caused by the building of the Three Gorges Dam. In addition, the flooding in 2016 had a lower hazard scale than that in 1998 but resulted in larger economic losses than that of 1998. To mitigate urban waterlogging caused by flooding hazards, China proposed a new strategy named Spongy City (SPC) in 2014. SPC promotes sustainable city development so that a city has the resilience to adapt to climate change, to mitigate the impacts of waterlogging caused by extreme rainfall events. The countermeasures used to tackle the SPC construction-related problems, such as local inundation, water resource shortage, storm water usage, and water pollution control, are proposed for city management to improve the environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]