Reply To: DT Talks: Driving Towards Interconnected Digital Twins

3 minutes ago, DRossiter87 said:

Hi @Miranda Sharp, this might be an unfair question (sorry) but how does the NDT programme plan to quantify what information is needed from stakeholders and support them in maintaining it. 

In your bridge example there is a cost (time/money/effort) to maintain a conforming dataset that may not support asset owner use cases.  In these instances, how does the NDT programme plan to incentivize altruism to enable these greater values.  Will it rely on the ethos of “data for the public good”  and the good will of asset owners or will it need to consider utilizing regulatory milestones such as a requirement to submit information to planning/building control to require these datasets to be made available?

another good question, thank you Dan.  The truth is we’re not sure yet but we are doing 3 things in parallel.

1. Developing the IMF, the common infrastructure, which we hope can be used as the rules for the game that enables owners to connect digital assets.  It also allows commercial services to be developed to help clients or allows them to use a basic version for free.
2. Working with the community to understand and share the benefits of creating and connecting digital twins so that business cases can be created.
3. Where we identify systemic blockers using the combined power of the community to address them.  One such barrier may be regulation where we may be able to show that new approaches are required so that cross silo benefit can be unlocked.