Digital Twin Consortium Publishes Building Performance and Sustainability User Guide - Co-authored by Gafcon Digital
Digital Twin Consortium® (DTC) published The Why and the What of Digital Twin Building Performance and Sustainability: An Owner’s Perspective. This guide is the first in five user guides designed to assist an owner or occupier with new or existing digital twin-based building decarbonization implementations throughout the lifecycle. This first guide addresses such questions as “Why should we do this?” and “What are the objectives for sustainability, efficiency, resiliency, health, risk mitigation, performance, reliability, and accountability?”
This paper looks at the foundational elements necessary to optimize the performance of a built environment, guiding organizations as they decarbonize, to reduce their environmental impact. The user guide shows how a digital twin can help building owners develop a roadmap and implement the best possible solutions to lower the building’s environmental impact, ensuring sustainability for generations. The guide also discusses digital twins’ positive effects in optimizing long-term building performance.
“As 2030 net-zero objectives become 2040 and 2050 requirements, building owners need to explore new proactive and holistic solutions. This user guide demonstrates how digital twins can help deliver these transformative changes and recognizes that our industry needs to collaboratively reduce the impact of our built environments. Digital twins help building owners adopt data-driven approaches to help them understand not only how a building is performing but also how it should be performing.”
