Digital twins can revolutionise our knowledge of underground structures in real time, during construction and in operation. These virtual replicants of real world assets enriched with real time and contextual data are giving more information about our underground structures than ever before. Assets then become more cost effective to design, to build, to maintain, and more efficient to operate with cloud based data storage enabling performance monitoring at a scale that has not been possible until very recently.

The tunnelling and wider construction industries are a little behind the curve, but the voices calling for tunnellers to harness the potential of digital twins are growing, and major infrastructure owners are preparing their assets for a digital future.

GUESTS
Michael Gaunt, Principal Information Manager at Mott MacDonald
Mark Enzer, chair, Digital Framework Task Group and Chief Technical Officer, Mott MacDonald
Peter Vale, Engineering Information Manager, Tideway
Tim Rook, associate partner, Blockchain in the industrial sector, IBM