What is digital twin? (video: 4:25 min.)
Autodesk digital twin technology
Digital Twins in Construction, Engineering & Architecture
For the AEC industry, a digital twin integrates real-time data from a built asset with its digital representation to create insights across the project lifecycle.
What is digital twin for the AEC industry?
A digital twin in construction, engineering, and architecture is a dynamic, up-to-date replica of a physical asset or set of assets—whether it’s a building, a campus, a city, or a railway—that brings together design, construction, and real-time operational data. Digital twins simulate, predict, and inform decisions.
Digital twin is transforming AEC
Owners and operators gain insights to continually improve building performance.
What are the benefits of digital twin?
Digital twins give multi-dimensional views into how an asset is designed and how it’s performing, including occupant behavior, use patterns, space utilization, and traffic patterns. A digital twin offers a means to test "what-if" scenarios, including the impact of design changes, weather disruptions, and security events. It collects substantial data under one environment.
How does digital twin work?
Digital twin works by integrating a building’s system, sensor, and utility meter data with intelligent multidimensional digital models. A true digital twin possesses the operational and behavioral awareness necessary to simulate, predict, and inform decisions based on real-world conditions.
BIM to digital twin (video: 0:42 sec.)
How do digital twins use BIM?
The BIM process incorporates data created during the planning and design phases. Digital twin extends data capture to the construction and operational phases of the asset—and can also inform planning and design for future projects.
Realizing the full promise of digital twin requires multidisciplinary models at the core and an integration of systems and data across workflows and between organizations. BIM is the most efficient path to the creation of an accurate, high-value digital twin.
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Try the digital twin platform today
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Digital twin classes and resources
Delivering BIM to owners with a digital twin
This talk will help you cut through the hype, so you understand the value of a digital twin and what is required to create one.
Digital twin for building owners
Watch this roundtable discussion to explore, define, and understand what digital twins mean for the building industry today.
