The CIO Strategy Council is inviting comments on a draft first edition of a new standard forย digital twins for built environments.ย ย
These modelsย areย context-richย digital representations ofย buildings and communities.ย With two-thirds of the global population projected to live in cities by 2050, digital twins are becoming a vital planningย tool,ย and the market for them is expected to grow to almost U.S.$36 billionย by 2025.ย ย ย
Digital Twins combine real-time data from IT systems, IoT sensors and third-party data in a contextual representation of a built environment. Canada has many companies that work with digital twins and have the expertise, talent, and capabilities to rapidly commercialize and scale their solutions. The new draft standard (CAN/CIOSC 106-1) is designed to support these businesses by providing a shared set of criteria that will encourage interoperability, collaboration and accelerated commercialization. ย
โAs the pace at which Canadaโs built asset industry undergoes its digitalization continues to accelerate, there is a growing need to ensure consistency in how the built environment gets planned, designed, delivered, maintained and used to fully benefit from this digitalization,โ saidย รrik Poirier, a construction engineering professor at รcole de Technologie Supรฉrieur. โOne of the rapidly emerging trends in this regard is the development and implementation of digital twins for built assets. With this standard, the CIOย Strategy Council is setting the groundwork to enable and accelerate the adoption ofย digitalย twins for the Canadian built asset industry.โย
“We support the effortsโฏofย CAN/CIOSCโฏ106-1,โย says Mark Fox,ย director at the Universityโฏof Toronto School of Cities Urban Data Centre.ย โWe look forward to working with the CIOย Strategy Councilย in developing industry standardsโฏto enhance the design, planning and operations ofย digitalย twins forย builtย environments.โย
Check out the draft standard and share your commentsย here. The standard is available for public review until January 26, 2022. ย