Buildings and Semantics

Chapter 9 The building as a platform Predictive digital twinning

Tamer El-Diraby and Soroush Sobhkhiz

DOI: 10.1201/9781003204381-11

CONTENTS

1. 9.1 Introduction
   1. 9.1.1 Digital twins and intelligent buildings
   2. 9.1.2 Digital twinning
2. 9.2 Background
   1. 9.2.1 The challenges
   2. 9.2.2 The potentials
   3. 9.2.3 Machine learning and advanced sensing
3. 9.3 The University of Toronto intelligent buildings digital twin project
   1. 9.3.1 Phases 1 and 2
      1. 9.3.1.1 IBDT for UofT facilities and services
      2. 9.3.1.2 IBDT for building stakeholders
   2. 9.3.2 Phase 3
   3. 9.3.3 Project outcomes
4. 9.4 Summary and conclusion
5. Note

This chapter discusses the need and merit for a possible alternative view on digital twinning. First, the potential that the digital twin will not be IFC-based. ...