Demystifying digital twins

By Ibrahim Atta-Apau 2021-01-25T06:00:00

The number of digital twins in use in construction is limited, so what will help the sector to realise their potential?

Digital twins have fast become the poster child of the construction industry’s digital transformation. Everyone is talking with great excitement about virtual representations of assets, process and systems – a true convergence of the physical and digital worlds.

But, like BIM previously, the term has become somewhat of a buzz word, thanks in part to its ubiquity, and there’s much confusion about what digital twins actually are and how they can drive positive change within the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector.

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