This case study is relevant to Nextspace Partners who have customers using BIM, as it outlines reasons why BIM was never developed to be a facility management tool, and therefore a digital twin should be added.

Reasons include:

• BIM is a lot of work for facility management
• BIM is a design and construction tool that can mimic an asset management system
• BIM is a siloed tool, never developed to use multiple data points or be used by multiple parties

The advantages of a digital twin over BIM lie in:

• Live data. Between the physical asset and digital replica
• Data interoperability. It is much easier for a digital twin to connect previously siloed and disparate data sets and systems
• The ability to incorporate AI
• APIs. Providing flexibility and extensibility
• When building systems and data are tied together, digital twins become essentially a platform for continuous commissioning

“By capturing and synchronizing data at a specified frequency and fidelity from various sources, you can visualize how your building has been performing, what is happening now, and what may happen in the future. You can use digital twins to break siloes in your projects. You can leverage it to convert your data to knowledge and support transforming the knowledge from one project to another.”

Mehdi Nourbakhsh

CEO, YegaTech

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