Using energy digital twins could be key to reducing costs and carbon for both new and existing buildings, says Mott MacDonald’s Santiago Velez.

Dublin City University is using a digital twin of its campus to test smart city technology, bringing AI and a digital twin together.

Ireland’s largest MEP consultancy, Ethos Engineering was shortlisted twice in this year’s Digital Construction Awards for its Living Lab, a smart building tool. Ethos developed the tool by testing it on its own headquarters in Sandyford, Dublin.

Birmingham City University (BCU) is developing a digital twin of the 155m-tall Birmingham skyscraper, One Eastside. The building is set to be Birmingham’s tallest when it is completed in 2026.

A transport thinktank has secured £46m in public and private funding to use digital twins to decarbonise transport in the UK.

Stirling and Clackmannashire councils are using a digital twin of their regions to help meet their net zero targets.

Digital twin to give Liverpool “world-class London-style” public transport.

Supermarket chain Morrisons is using digital twin technology to decarbonise its 4,500 sq m food production facility in Winsford, Cheshire.

When the Roman Catholic Church needed a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, it turned to Italian project management consultancy Italferr. Aude Camus of Bentley Systems reveals how the firm saved modelling time and delivered the twin ahead of schedule.

Mercedes-Benz and Siemens have developed a digital energy twin designed to help the automotive giant run all its factories sustainably.

The University of Liverpool has made a five-figure operational cost saving thanks to using a digital twin as part of a refurbishment project.

Infrastructure engineering software company Bentley Systems has unveiled a new platform for an unlimited scope digital twin of London as the centrepiece of its new ‘experience centre’ and HQ in the City.

After La Palma, the Spanish Canary Island, was devastated by a volcanic eruption, Spain’s National Geographic Institute set about creating a digital twin of the altered landscape to aid in the island’s reconstruction and prepare for future eruptions.

Standards, the golden thread, digital twins, a TV documentary and, yes, AI and ChatGPT dominated the headlines last year. The best-read BIM stories of 2023 touched on these topics and more.

What’s your definition of a digital twin? An expert panel debated this meaning at the Women in BIM conference in London on 22 November.

How can the urban digital twin be kick-started? Helber López of Bentley Systems Germany sets out his plan.

The University of Bradford is expanding the city’s digital twin with the aid of a vehicle-mounted mobile mapping system that can capture two million data points every second to a resolution of 1mm.

Energy-from-waste operator Enfinium has created digital twins of its facilities with the help of France-based 3D manufacturing visualisation specialist, Vertex Industrie.