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EVENT REVIEW
EVENT REVIEW
Bentley Systems
Connecting the Virtual and Physical Worlds Big Project ME recaps the events of the Construction Digital Twins Webinar – How to get Time on Your Side, which was presented by Paul King, solutions director, Construction at Bentley Systems
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n February 16, 2022, Bentley Systems and Big Project ME held a webinar that focused on Digital Twins and how the technology is changing the construction industry by connecting the physical and virtual worlds together. Over the course of the hour-long discussion, Paul King, solutions director, Construction at Bentley Systems, shared insights on how digital twins not only synchronise
work and improve visibility on projects for all stakeholders, but also help the teams building the projects to make sense of the right data, at the right time, across the project’s entire lifecycle. Given the scale and variety of construction challenges facing the industry (ranging from internal issues such as data transparency, talent management, adoption of new technologies, and the utilisation of resources correctly, through to external obstacles such as fragmented value chains,
March 2022 | MEConstructionNews.com
extensive subcontracting, competitive pressures and complex portfolios) King asserted that digital twin technology and its correct deployment technology was vital to the future of the sector. He added that poor communication and project information are two of the main causes of rework on construction projects, with workers often wasting time searching for project data and resolving avoidable issues. During the discussion, King touched upon a key point of project
data being unstable or unusable, which leads to poor decisions being made. Expanding on the theme, he added that construction is one of the least digitised industries on the planet, with old processes used in the field, and old IT systems used in the office. “Recent reports by FMI have found that workers waste, on average, two days a week searching for project data and resolving avoidable issues. Poor communication and project information are the cause for nearly
