What makes a digital twin worth relying on
What it takes for an owner to rely on a digital twin for a decision, and why procurement sets the conditions for reliance rather than guaranteeing it.
Notes
Short, working notes on digital, data and AI in infrastructure. What I'm thinking through on live capital delivery, digital twins and whole-life asset decisions, written for the people who have to make it work.
Headroom
Most long-life assets hold something that ages far faster than they do. What you are really buying is the room to change what is inside.
The reliance question
Working once is a low bar. Whether an organisation can rely on a capability is settled upstream, in procurement and ownership, before go-live.
Published elsewhere
Selected writing and talks for other publications and institutions.
- The limits of efficiency: not every slow step in engineering is wasteInstitution of Civil Engineers, Inside Infrastructure
- How AI is shaping the built environment in the Middle EastInstitution of Civil Engineers, recorded lecture
- How digital engineering is improving project deliveryThe Engineers Collective, podcast
- Informing the information requirements of a digital twin, a rail industry case studyProceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Smart Infrastructure and Construction, 2022
- Civil engineering means going digitalBentley Systems, case study