DIGITAL TWINS ARE NOW ENABLING THE BIM WITH Al TO TWIN WITH AI’ PATH: DIGITAL TWIN CONSORTIUM

Digital Twin Consortium DTC) drives the awareness, adoption, interoperability, and development of digital twin technology. Through a collaborative partnership with industry, academia, and government expertise, the Consortium is dedicated to the overall development of digital twins. DTC accelerates the market by propelling innovation and guiding outcomes for technology end-users. Here, Dan Isaacs, CTO, Digital Twin Consortium, Ron Zahavi, Executive Director, Digital Twin Consortium, and Ms. Salla Eckhardt, Co-Chair, Digital Twin Consortium Architecture, Engineering, Construction Operations Working Group, discuss the details about digital twin in the building industry and more.

- Pradeep Chakraborty

How has DTC advanced the use of digital twins in the building industry? Wasn’t this being done before?

Ms. Salla Eckhardt: DTC has defined what digital twins are, and are not in the building industry. The building industry has struggled with BIM in operations” for a decade now, and digital twins are becoming the response to the need operations have.

It is about the dynamic telemetry data, rather than static engineered data. Digital twins are providing preventative, proactive, predictive, and prescriptive answers to the building industry operators that have been very reactive up until now.

The static BIM data has provided the digital truth about the perfect” built environment. Still, the built environment in operations and maintenance with the end-users has never remained perfect, balanced, or optimized because people make decisions ad hoc.

Digital twins are now enabling the BIM with Al to twin with Al” path, because, we are enabling the accumulation of digital truth that doesn’t end at the digital representation of the built environment buildings and infrastructure as structures). It continues as the digitally enhanced built environment end-users, buildings, and infrastructure).

In short, digital twins are enabling the live metaverse environment, which no one had before because the industry didn’t have the technology to allow or realize this.

How can DTC influence standards and processes to advance the use of digital twins in building industries?

Ms. Salla Eckhardt: DTC does not develop its standards. And, instead, it works with other standards organizations to further develop and address gaps.