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Major report backs value creation potential of Digital Twins
Ernst & Young has delivered an enormous boost to Digital Twin technology’s value in building maintenance and operations, sustainability and reducing environmental impact, health and wellness, and real estate interface.

This comes from a white paper ‘Digital Twin: The Age of Aquarius in construction and real estate, in which the financial giant draws on a host of sources and examples, and concludes that adoption of Digital Twins can reduce real estate operating costs by up to 35%, drive down carbon emissions, deliver a healthier workplace, and enhance user experiences.

The Ernst & Young (E&Y) paper focuses on four key areas:

Building Maintenance and Operations

Incredibly, operations can cost up to five times a building’s capital investment. A recent joint study by Harvard Business School and Microsoft found that two-thirds of global organizations are adopting new technologies to control their real estate’s energy use.

Digital Twins can reduce the significant maintenance costs of any asset by collecting, monitoring and analyzing real-time data while utilizing machine-learning models to mitigate future risks.

Digital Twin pioneer Cityzenith’s SmartWorldOS™ platform has an intuitive, 3D visualizer with an easy-to-use dashboard giving insight into an array of information and analytics across the entire lifecycle: site selection, design and planning, construction, operations, maintenance, and sales. SmartWorldOS™ has the ability to reduce operating costs by 35%, as well as boost productivity by 20%.

Environmental Impact and Sustainability

Using Digital Twins, owners and facility managers can reduce a building’s environmental footprint by decreasing the energy consumption of various components and systems.

The white paper singles out Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, which has used Digital Twins and real-time data analysis to examine and reduce energy and water use, carbon emissions, and waste across its campus of over 200 buildings.

During five years of facility operations, Phase 1 analysis resulted in a 21% reduction in campus energy consumption, cutting 7.4 kilotonnes in carbon emissions and S$3.9 million (US$2.94 million) from the university running costs.

In the final stage, virtual Digital Twin models using data from Phase 1 and Phase 2 (10 years) modeled the impact from installing a range of potential technologies. The adoption of these then resulted in a 31% energy reduction and S$4.7 million (US$3.5 million) of cost savings over the decade, while placing NTU on track towards carbon neutrality.

Cityzenith’s SmartWorldOS™ software can reduce carbon emissions in urban areas by between 50-100%, making a difference in the global effort to protect the built environment as part of the UN’s race to zero.

People Improvements and Real Estate Interface

Global real estate expert JLL recently estimated that 30-40% of office space is underutilized and E&Y believes Digital Twins are a viable solution for tracking occupancy patterns and pinpointing inefficiencies.

Path of travel is a pivotal data point, often overlooked, but a Digital Twin can assist in designing roads, entrances/exits, and parking diagrams to align with peak traffic flows, while the Digital Twin can also optimize employees’ schedules to skip high traffic periods.

Building owners can enhance personal safety for their employees and assets too by installing automated security systems within the Digital Twin. AI image recognition in the IoT network could monitor areas now typically patrolled by security personnel. Threat detection should be improved substantially and no longer require such a large security team; the white paper estimates a 50% reduction in security wages at least.

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