Connected Digital Things
Several Terms such as Digital Ecosystem, Digital Life, Digital World, Digital Earth have been used to describe the growth in technology. Digital twins are contributing…
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Two-tiers Intelligence for Inspection, Maintenance, and Repair Robots
 Intelligent infrastructure is a new trend that aims to create a work of connected physical and digital objects together in industrial domains via a…
Flexible Digital Twins
A digital twin is a digital representation of something that exists in the physical world (be it a building, a factory, a power plant, or…
Anglian Water’s Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) – the use of GIS in the Common Data Environment for the Digital Twin
Introduction The Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) was established to deliver a major part of Anglian Water’s ‘Water Resources Management Plan’ to safeguard against the potential…
Innovate UK STELLAR Project: – A data-driven approach to help accelerate UK housing delivery
 Article written by :- Ilnaz Ashayeri – University of Wolverhampton | Jack Goulding – University of Wolverhampton STELLAR provides new tools and business models…
Introducing the Virtual Energy System
The energy industry has made impressive strides along the path to net-zero, while undergoing the transition to digitisation. Our next, shared step can be to…
Digital data from space: what value is there and how do I get started?
We are facing a growing challenge in the UK in managing the assets we construct. New structures will need future maintenance and much of our…
The successful delivery of an ICDD container as foundation of a DT
AEC Information Containers based on the ISO21597, the so-called ICDD, are a great way to store data and relations. Widely discussed as a possible structure for any CDE,…
BIM for Housing Associations: Practical Applications for Implementing the Golden Thread
Next week’s Gemini Call will include a presentation by Jack Ostrofsky, Head of Quality and Design at Southern Housing Group and Chair of BIM for…
Anglian Water’s Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) – the use of BIM (better information management) in developing our Digital Twin
In setting up the SPA Enterprise it was acknowledged that BIM principles would drive outperformance in both the project and asset lifecycles, and therefore an…
The CLIMAR (Climate Impacts, Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience) framework for quantifying and visualising the risks of climate-related impacts
The climate emergency and the transition to a net zero economy means businesses, governments and individuals need access to new information to ensure that we can mitigate…
Developing new services: How digital twins can realise their true potential
The bigger and more complicated the engineering problem, the more likely it is to have a digital twin. Firms that build rockets, planes and ships,…
Capturing Digital Skills: A journey towards adoption of CDBB’s Skills and Competency Framework
Like many companies Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin group, is investing heavily in digital transformation and we all know that skills are a key…
Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) pushing forward Anglian Water’s Digital Twin Roadmap
Anglian Water is an early adopter of digital twins within the water sector, working closely with the Centre for Digital Built Britain to help develop…
Digitisation for construction product manufacturers – a plain language guide
How manufacturers can structure and share data safely and sustainably. Manufacturers of construction products produce a significant part of the information required to bring about…
Can digital help us embrace a systems approach to infrastructure delivery?
The UK’s approach to delivering complex infrastructure projects is obsolete, leading to far too many projects failing to meet the expectations of their sponsors and…
Quality assurance of Digital Twins – Increased trustworthiness and value through a structured approach
In November 2020 DNV published the energy industry’s first recommended practice (RP) on how to quality-assure digital twins. Our new RP, which we developed in…
The Digital Twin Fan Club Podcast
Listen at the Digital Twin Fan Club Podcast: City Digital Twins – Wellington, Covid and Quakes
Get involved in the Colouring Cities project; the free knowledge exchange platform designed to provide open data on buildings
The building stock is a city’s most significant socio-cultural and economic resource and its largest capital asset. Buildings are also where we spend most of…
Survey | Building next generation digital twins with Unreal Engine
Who are we Game engine technology is at the heart of heralding a new age of content creation, immersive storytelling, design driven development, and business process innovation.…
Draft BS 99001:2021 Quality management systems: would you be willing to comment please?
Good day to you! I am a member of the BSi e-committee, tasked with producing the attached draft of BS 99001:2021 Quality management systems. It…
Writing Information Requirements – Report from the IADD4UK group
The attached guide was put together from discussions and knowledge share through the Infrastructure Asset Data Dictionary for the UK (IADD4UK) group between 2013 and…
Forwarded
Something related to digital twins: “”Delta Sharing is the industry’s first open protocol for secure data sharing, making it simple to share data with other…
Rewind: techUK publishes landmark ‘Unlocking Value Across the UK’s Digital Twin Ecosystem’ report
Last month, on Thursday 25 February, techUK released a landmark report ‘Unlocking Value Across the UK’s Digital Twin Ecosystem’, alongside the much anticipated publication of the CDBB’s ‘Digital Twin Toolkit’ report. Please…