Digital twin solution for AEC practitioners

Tandem offers simulation and predictive modelling capabilities, based on real-world conditions of the building and its environment, thus reducing risks and cutting project costs

Autodesk’s latest cloud-based Tandem software produces a digital reference model of any building, bridge or road, incorporating BIM data that includes design, construction and service data. The reference model becomes a dashboard for the project and a database of its assets, making it possible to track, manage and maintain these assets over time. The model is responsive, automatically updating as data is supplied.

Tandem’s Facility Templates enable project teams to specify the owner’s data requirements up front, ensuring data delivery is standardised and consistent. It also enables architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) project teams to collaborate easily, and to view progress (and asset performance) historically or currently. This seamless collaboration functionality enhances both efficiency and productivity.

Management and integration

Before the advent of digital twin technology, the management and integration of different data sources was a challenge for AEC project teams, sometimes resulting in inefficient workflows, costly errors and delays. Project handovers involved the lengthy process of converting large volumes of analogue data (from different silos) into a single digital format. Using this method, a significant volume of data was wasted.

“Digital twin technology is already utilised in manufacturing, as well as the oil and gas industry, where it has demonstrated that it can improve the management of production and drive efficiency,” says Chelsey Turner, segment leader: Infrastructure at WorldsView, a value-added distributor of Autodesk solutions across Africa. “The introduction of Autodesk Tandem, designed specifically for the AEC sector, will bring a host of benefits into the make-build space.”

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