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Is the Digital twin of Bradford financially sustainable?

 

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11 minutes ago, Tom Hughes said:

An open question to all in the discussion. Miranda mentions three important “cross silo” challenges that could be addressed by the interconnection of digital twins; Carbon reduction targets, coordinated disaster response, the improvement of societal wellbeing. Do you see any other cross silo challenges that could be addressed by interconnected digital twins?  

 

thanks Tom, I’m really keen to hear them if people come up with more

 

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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.

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2 minutes ago, Tom Hughes said:

@Miranda, you mention the IMF pathway consultation in your talk. Could you explain how members of the DT Hub can take part and perhaps share your thoughts on why the IMF pathway consultation is important for the success of the National Digital Twin programme.

 

Hub members are welcome to respond individually or on behalf of a group.  We will also looking in to conducting interviews and round tables for people who would find that a more suitable way to feedback.

The document was produced after consultation with over 100 experts in the field of information management on the challenge of creating the common infrastructure which can connect different digital twins.  We set out in the document, and the accompanying approach document, the reasons why such a common  infrastructure is necessary and helpful.   (Some members may like to direct their less technical colleagues to the approach document.)

The common infrastructure is called the Information Management Framework and comprises a Foundation Data Model (FDM), Reference Data Library and Integration Architecture.  Work is underway this year to create an “FDM seed” to support the Construction Innovation Hub.

Through the consultation we are keen to hear from a wider community than the experts who contributed to creating it.  This wider community may have completely different or completely aligned on the nature of the IMF so we are keen to test those views.

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1 minute ago, AquamatiX said:

It may be a trivial point but it bothered me that the gears in the two DT slide 2 & 3 are loocked and cannot function.

Otherwise interesting opening talk but I expected it to be on zoom or some other interactive channel.

When is return date for INF feedback?

Thank you for your question and I take your point about the locked gears.

The IMF consultation is open until the 31st of August, please respond as an individual or on behalf of a group and let us know if there is anything we can do to support your response.

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14 minutes ago, Steven Zhang said:

As Miranda mentioned in her talk, the National Digital Twin is aiming to help achive net zero carbon emission. May I ask what are the independent digital twins currently available that measures the energy consumption/carbon emission? And how do you plan to link them together?

Examples in my mind are: 

Supply side-National Grid’s Carbon Intensity API- https://carbonintensity.org.uk/ 

Demand side: National Energy Efficiency Data framework  https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-energy-efficiency-data-need-framework 

Thank you Steven

this sounds like an excellent use case or application and one we might like to collaborate on to identify the problems and possible solutions.  Can you help us get in touch with the right people?

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Thank you Dan

That is a good classification set and to some extent mirrors the ODI research on the different business models which might be accessible to data intuitions.  https://theodi.org/article/designing-sustainable-data-institutions-paper/