Tag: Twin
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Aecmaster’s Digital Twin: A New Era for Building Design
I sat down with Anssi Auvinen, the CEO and founder of Finnish startup Aecmaster, to discuss the future of design and how the company plans to make it happen. Anssi envisions data-driven design as the next radical change in the AEC sector. Anssi Auvinen Anssi Auvinen started working in the building industry as a 16-year-old…
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A New Digital Twin for an Existing Bridge
The smartBRIDGE Hamburg project devised a digital twin of a 1970s bridge using open BIM technologies. Allplan and Solibri were instrumental in developing the twin that enables the Hamburg Port Authority, HPA, to maintain the critical infrastructure asset predictively. Built in 1974, the Köhlbrand Bridge is Germany’s second-longest road bridge and one of its busiest.…
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Meet Jarkko Sireeni, CEO and Founder of xD Twin
I had a chat with Jarkko Sireeni, CEO and founder of xD Twin, a digital twin solution for urban development. The company won the 2022 WDBE (World of Digital Built Environment) award in the “Best Use of Open Standards “ category. We discussed how BIM data, GIS data, and other planning and construction information could…
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EVERCAM Construction Cameras Expands Digital Twin Capabilities with Bentley Funding
Evercam Ltd. (EVERCAM), the leading provider of construction camera software announced a financial investment by Bentley iTwin Ventures, a part of Bentley Acceleration Initiatives. Bentley Acceleration Initiatives is the internal incubator for strategic investments of Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company. This investment and technical integration of Bentley’s iTwin® platform will…
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Matterport to Showcase Digital Twin Solutions at its Space Jam Competition
Matterport, the spatial data company, will host the next installment of the Matterport Space Jam virtual event series on February 24, 2022, at 8:30 am PT. The event features four of its platform partners that are building software solutions on top of Matterport’s digital twins for the AEC industry. During the event, each platform partner…
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Helsinki’s Digital Twin Report Released
A report called The Kalasatama Digital Twins Project by the Helsinki 3D+ team details the process and the technologies that they used to create a digital twin of the Kalasatama district. I met with the city’s team in April 2019 and consequently wrote the article Helsinki is Building a Digital Twin of the City. Download…
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Helsinki is Building a Digital Twin of the City
The capital of Finland first tested city modeling as long back as 1987. But the most recent model of the Kalasatama district demonstrates the new state-of-the-art possibilities of this technology: creation of a highly accurate digital twin of the city. My hosts, Helsinki’s city modeling specialists Jarmo Suomisto and Enni Airaksinen, showed me their latest…