Imagine building an extension of a city. One that consumes less energy than it generates, works seamlessly within the natural ecosystem and offers great experiences to all its inhabitants. Imagine all stakeholders collaboratively planning this city, interactively exploring various scenarios to find the design with maximum spatial quality and functional operability.
Throughout the planning cycles, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform tracks each version of the data model and checks for incongruences as different people optimize the design. In early design stages, integrating a historical record of the natural environment can reveal the potential impact the environment will have on a system or structure, and therefore the practicality of each concept.
When all parties agree on a design, it is developed, analyzed, simulated and optimized in the virtual world before it becomes a reality. Engineers use the platform to explore, interpret the natural environment according to more and more precise measurement and testing systems, and then simulate it’s interaction with the structures underpinned and contoured by it .
During physical construction, the model responds to data from the site, enabling project managers to check the plan against field conditions, recalibrate proactively and optimize construction activities.
Once built, the dynamic model continues to serve as a tool to manage the city, to plan and predict maintenance cycles, to communicate with citizens, to inform emergency response systems, and to support its continuous evolution.
In this way, the digital twin contains the entire urban lifecycle.