After all there were people in the room that in their own fields were already working very hard on these issues and had deep insight into it..
While we’re very optimised to keep water off the roads, we don’t really understand other aspects, such as whether a drainage ditch should be built to go left or right at a particular junction.The information exists, we just need to find different ways of interpreting between it.. Sharp says that digitising planning is very much a use case of the National Digital Twin programme because people can see the value in it and therefore have the appetite to address it.
She highlights that we’re currently at the very early stages of connecting digital twins and we need to choose projects which will move us forward, picking the low hanging fruit.She cautions that we should be careful not to codify or entrench any particular positions that will be preventative in the future.We must look at where people are finding problems and identifying common difficulties, and then seek solutions for how we can address them and apply those lessons in other spheres.
Planning is an area ripe with value and opportunity, just as geospatial policy is another.If someone is digging a hole with a pickaxe and finds a pipe, it creates risk for all sorts of domains.
We need to share information more efficiently in order to keep people safer at work, cause less disruption to the local economy by digging up roads, and provide better utility services.. What is a digital twin?.
That said, when we talk about digital twins, we might not always be referring to the same thing.The ‘Defining the Need’ report is a fantastic first manifestation of the ‘harmonise, digitise and rationalise’ policy.
But the use of cross-sector data hints at even more powerful opportunities in the future, such as:.Longer term pipelines..
The Construction Playbook includes policies for publishing commercial pipelines and developing long-term plans for key asset types.The data set developed by the Hub could be expanded (‘upwards’ from spaces into assets and complexes and ‘downwards’ into sub-assemblies and products) to create a holistic data set that would allow suppliers to carry out their own analysis and forecasting.. Where better to publish this data than on a digital marketplace?.