Digital twin

A data-rich digital counterpart of a physical building, kept current with information from the built asset through its operating life.

Broader: BIM (Building Information Modeling)

Depends on: BIM (Building Information Modeling)

Owners & developers Technology companies

Why it matters

Compliance is usually discussed as a design-phase problem, but buildings drift from their approved state over years of tenant improvements and operations. The same structured model data that supports design-phase checking is what makes ongoing, as-operated compliance evaluation conceivable for owners.

Also in Technology: BIM (Building Information Modeling) Revit IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) API (Application Programming Interface)

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