A Digital Twin for a Health Care Facility using IoT and Edge Computing Devices

This research paper describes the creation of a low-level Digital Twin that allows visualizing and monitoring five key parameters that measure the air quality in an operating room suite at a health care facility in Denver, Colorado.

Designing for People

The AEC industry is constantly striving to design, build, and operate buildings more efficiently and cost-effectively, thereby heeding the "faster and cheaper" mantra. But how about designing "better" buildings for people? And if so, what makes a better building?

Interoperability-based Collaboration Paves Way to AEC’s Digital Future

Given the importance of interoperability in collaboration, it is extremely beneficial to have more options for it in addition to the consortium-developed, consensus-driven IFC file format. The iModel provides such an alternative.

Digital Twins in AEC

The AEC industry has gone from manual drafting to CAD, then from CAD to BIM, and now from BIM to digital twins. This paper explores the technology of digital twins and its potential in the AEC industry to go much further than BIM in terms of impact and benefits.

More Research Papers/Reports

Comparison of Bentley ProjectWise and Autodesk Vault for AEC

BIM Evaluation Study Report



Selected Earlier Articles

Thornton Tomasetti

CORE Studio: AEC Technology Development at Thornton Tomasetti

This article explores the cutting-edge AEC technology applications developed by CORE Studio, a dedicated software development group at Thornton Tomasetti. The applications including Konstru, Swarm, Asterisk, Trace, and many more for design, analysis, collaboration and visualization.

Layer software

Layer: Capturing and Organizing Building Data

Layer is a new AEC application that was launched close to six months ago to address what seems to be an obvious need in the industry—organizing and integrating the vast amount of disparate data that is typically collected on site during the retrofit or construction of a building project.

Merdeka 118

Merdeka 118: Project Profile

Fender Katsalidis describes the implementation of AEC technology on the “Merdeka 118” project, a 118-storey, mega-tall skyscraper under construction in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Upon completion, it will become the tallest building in Malaysia and Southeast Asia, and the second-tallest building in the world.

Social Distance Modelling

Social Distance Modelling for COVID

This article describes the research that was conducted by a team at the Technical University of Denmark to study the impact of COVID-19 on the passenger flow in the Copenhagen Metro, using passenger flow data and station floorplan drawings as well as Bentley Legion software for simulation of pedestrian flow.