Everything you need to know about the power of building intelligence—and how to make the most of it
Industry Insights
Housing, Health Inequalities and the Digital Foundations We Need Now
A new report from the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) and The King’s Fund makes a compelling case: improving housing is one of the most effective ways to reduce health inequalities in the UK. Affordable, secure and good-quality homes function as a form of health infrastructure, shaping everyday conditions long before someone seeks clinical care. Delivering this vision, however, requires more than policy ambition. Housing providers need strong operational capability, clear visibility of asset condition and compliance status, and the ability to identify and address issues before they escalate. This is where digital foundations become critical. Twinview acts as an operational intelligence layer across housing portfolios, bringing together asset information, compliance records, system performance data and environmental insights into a single, structured view. By connecting existing systems and surfacing trusted information, it enables housing teams to see how their buildings are performing and where intervention may be required.
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Digital Twins in Higher Education Estates: A Practical Guide
Higher education institutions manage some of the most complex and diverse estates in the public sector, encompassing multi-campus environments, ageing infrastructure, specialist teaching and research facilities and high levels of daily occupancy. Effective estate management is therefore critical to supporting academic excellence, meeting sustainability commitments and maintaining financial resilience. As operational pressures increase and resources tighten, universities are increasingly exploring innovations such as digital twins to improve visibility and control across their estates.
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What Do Digital Twins Hold for 2026: From Visualisation to Smart Building Operations
As digital twins move from experimentation into everyday building operations, 2026 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for the sector. To explore what’s genuinely changing and what remains more hype than reality, we sat down with one of the Directors at Twinview, Neil Hancock, for a fascinating conversation on the future of digital twins and smart building operations. This interview captures an honest, practical discussion on where adoption is really happening, what operators actually need from digital twins and how the market is maturing.
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How Twinview Can Modernise Mine Infrastructure and Operations
Mining environments are complex, high-risk and heavily data-dependent. Managing critical infrastructure and equipment across sites requires clear, reliable operational visibility. By acting as an intelligence layer across existing systems, Twinview consolidates performance data into a single, trusted view. This enables teams to prioritise maintenance more effectively, demonstrate compliance with confidence and make operational decisions based on accurate, real-time information. In high-risk environments where downtime and failure carry significant consequences, clearer insight means reduced risk, improved performance and stronger control.
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Preventing Damp and Mould Through Real-Time Housing Insight (in an Age of Awaab’s Law)
Damp and mould continue to challenge landlords across the UK, often going unnoticed until they affect residents. Twinview offers a proactive solution by combining building design data with live environmental insights, giving landlords real-time visibility of how homes perform. By tracking humidity, temperature, ventilation and energy use, Twinview highlights early signs of risk and automatically alerts maintenance teams when conditions fall outside healthy ranges. This enables faster, targeted intervention, before mould develops. Twinview also closes the gap between how a home was designed, built and lived in. Viewing the digital model alongside real-world performance data helps identify root causes quickly and supports a reliable “golden thread” of information for compliance and transparency.
Case Studies
Enhancing Healthcare Environments Through Intelligent Space Optimisation: Twinview at Eastbourne District General Hospital
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust is enhancing the way space is managed at Eastbourne District General Hospital with Twinview’s digital twin technology. By enabling real-time visibility of room occupancy and usage across clinical and office areas, Twinview provides a clear picture of how spaces perform throughout the day. Hospital teams can move from assumption-based planning to data-driven decision-making, improving scheduling, reducing downtime and making more flexible use of rooms. This smarter approach supports greater operational efficiency and helps ensure that every space is working to benefit both patients and staff.
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Data Centres: The Hidden Cost of the Cloud
As the cloud expands, so does its unseen demand for water. Data centres worldwide are consuming vast volumes to keep servers cool, creating growing environmental and reputational risks. This article explores how water is becoming the next frontier in data-centre sustainability, and how Twinview’s digital-twin technology is helping operators measure, manage and reduce their impact.
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Can Better Building Insight Help Us Design Places That Bring People Together?
Loneliness is increasingly recognised as a public health issue, and the built environment has a role to play in addressing it. A well-designed building can meet every technical standard yet still leave people feeling isolated. Homes, workplaces, campuses and later-living communities often fall short not because they lack function, but because they lack connection. Architects and planners are beginning to ask a deeper question: how can buildings help people feel less alone? This isn’t about surveillance. It’s about feedback, helping designers and operators refine buildings after handover to better support wellbeing and social interaction.
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Preserving the Past Through the Future: A New Approach to Heritage Conservation
Historic buildings face growing threats from climate change, material decay and visitor impact, yet traditional maintenance methods are often reactive and unable to prevent long-term damage. This article explores how digital twins offer a new path to proactive preservation, giving conservation teams powerful insight without compromising historical integrity. Whether a building is centuries old or lacks detailed plans, Twinview enables conservation teams to start small and build meaningful insight step by step. With an added layer of visibility, we can shift from reactive repairs to predictive preservation, protecting authenticity while planning confidently for the future.
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Improving Infection Control in Hospitals Through Real-Time Operational Insight
Infection prevention has always been central to safe healthcare, but COVID-19 exposed how vulnerable hospitals can be to outbreaks. Incorporating an intelligence layer like Twinview offers hospitals real-time insight into how buildings are used, from patient flow and air quality to occupancy and cleaning. By creating a live 3D model of the facility, Twinview helps teams identify high-risk areas, optimise ventilation and target cleaning where it’s needed most. It supports smarter admissions, safer waiting areas and data-driven decisions that reduce infection risks. Rather than predicting every outbreak, Twinview highlights unsafe conditions early, empowering hospitals to act fast. Integrated with IoT sensors and building systems, it enhances compliance, safety and efficiency.
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Designing Sensory-Aware Cleaning Schedules for SEN Students
For students with Special Educational Needs (SEN), the physical environment can deeply influence comfort, focus and wellbeing. Routine cleaning, when not planned with sensory awareness, can unintentionally cause distress, from strong chemical smells to loud equipment or sudden changes in room layout. A platform like Twinview helps schools design predictable, sensory-aware cleaning schedules by combining data on occupancy, air quality and environmental conditions. Facilities teams can identify sensitive zones, schedule low-disruption cleaning times and track improvements over time. By integrating cleaning routines into a whole-school approach to sensory wellbeing, schools can reduce stress, improve focus and create environments that feel calm, safe and inclusive. Twinview turns everyday facilities data into meaningful action, supporting schools to build spaces that are not only clean and efficient, but welcoming and accessible for every learner.
Case Studies
Smarter Space Operations: Twinview at the South African National Space Agency
The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) is responsible for advancing the nation’s space science and technology initiatives. To support its mission-critical operations in Hermanus, SANSA has implemented the Twinview Digital Twin platform, a unified, real-time solution that consolidates building and infrastructure data into a single intelligent system. By integrating live telemetry, asset data and facilities workflows, Twinview enables SANSA to shift from reactive maintenance to early warning, data-driven decision-making.
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Smarter School Management: Twinview at CAST Multi-Academy Trust
CAST MAT is enhancing school operations across its multi-site estate with Twinview’s smart building technology. By integrating existing systems like BMS and energy meters into a single platform, Twinview enables real-time monitoring of energy use, asset performance and building comfort. Facilities teams can move from reactive maintenance to proactive management, reducing downtime, cutting costs and extending equipment life.