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Industry Insights
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 Digital Twins and Twinview Can Modernise Mine Infrastructure and Operations
Mining environments are complex, high-risk and heavily data-dependent. Digital twins offer a clearer way to manage this complexity by providing real-time insight into the performance of critical infrastructure and equipment. With live monitoring and consolidated reporting, maintenance can be prioritised more effectively, compliance becomes easier to demonstrate and operational decisions are backed by accurate, up-to-date information.
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Building Healthier Homes: How Digital Twins Can Help Landlords Prevent Mould and Damp (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 Digital Twins Help Us Design Buildings 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. Technology won’t solve loneliness on its own, but used responsibly, digital twins like Twinview can guide the creation of buildings that feel more human.
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Preserving the Past Through the Future: How Digital Twins Are Transforming Heritage Conservation
Discover how digital twins are transforming 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 digital twins, we can shift from reactive repairs to predictive preservation, protecting authenticity while planning confidently for the future. Explore how technology can give history a digital life.
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Digital Twins for Infection Control in Hospitals: Supporting Safer Healthcare Environments
Infection prevention has always been central to safe healthcare, but COVID-19 exposed how vulnerable hospitals can be to outbreaks. Digital twins like Twinview offer 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. As digital twin technology evolves, Twinview’s potential grows, supporting AI-driven analytics, clinical integration and sustainable, infection-resilient hospital design for the future.
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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.
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Wrexham University: Pioneering Smart Campus Management with Twinview
Wrexham University is transforming its estate operations through Twinview’s cutting-edge digital twin technology, creating a connected, data-driven campus that champions sustainability and efficiency. As part of its wider digital transformation strategy, the university is integrating real-time building performance data, energy analytics and facilities management into one intelligent platform. This unified approach enables smarter decision-making, optimises energy use and supports the university’s long-term carbon reduction goals.
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Advancing Education Infrastructure: Twinview’s Digital Twin at Zayed University
The Zayed University Proof of Concept (POC) project in Abu Dhabi represents a significant leap forward in campus operations, sustainability and digital transformation. Powered by Twinview’s digital twin technology, the initiative turns complex building systems into intelligent, high-performing environments. Through Twinview, Zayed University unifies fragmented systems into a single, connected digital ecosystem. Real-time telemetry from IoT sensors and the Building Management System (BMS), asset tagging and smart dashboards provide complete operational visibility and control. The result is a sustainable, adaptive infrastructure that enhances energy efficiency, ESG performance and overall building reliability.