October 15, 2013
This research paper describes the creation of a low-level Digital Twin that allows visualizing and monitoring five key parameters that measure the air quality in an operating room suite at a health care facility in Denver, Colorado.
The AEC industry is constantly striving to design, build, and operate buildings more efficiently and cost-effectively, thereby heeding the "faster and cheaper" mantra. But how about designing "better" buildings for people? And if so, what makes a better building?
Given the importance of interoperability in collaboration, it is extremely beneficial to have more options for it in addition to the consortium-developed, consensus-driven IFC file format. The iModel provides such an alternative.
The AEC industry has gone from manual drafting to CAD, then from CAD to BIM, and now from BIM to digital twins. This paper explores the technology of digital twins and its potential in the AEC industry to go much further than BIM in terms of impact and benefits.
