Everything you need to know about the power of building intelligence—and how to make the most of it
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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.
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How Digital Twins Are Shaping Safer, Smarter Correctional Facilities
Correctional facilities face complex challenges, from rising populations and ageing estates to high operational demands and safety risks. Digital twins offer a practical solution by integrating data from sensors, building models and operational systems into a single, actionable view. They provide early warnings of potential faults, support proactive maintenance, optimise energy use and help plan refurbishments with confidence. Beyond facilities management, digital twins can map spatial data to identify security blind spots and streamline operations across courts and probation services. When implemented responsibly, digital twins empower staff to make smarter, faster decisions, enhancing safety, efficiency and resilience throughout correctional environments.
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How Digital Twins Can Help Fashion Retailers Avoid Greenwashing
Fashion’s greenwashing problem goes beyond fabrics and fast fashion. While brands like ASOS, H&M and Zara promote eco-labels and carbon-neutral shipping, the unseen emissions from warehouses, fulfilment centres and stores remain some of the industry’s biggest contributors. Digital twins offer a way forward. By creating a living replica of a building, Twinview enables retailers to track energy use and emissions in real time, optimise performance and automate reporting with data that can withstand scrutiny. The result is measurable progress, not just marketing claims. With regulators in the UK, EU and US cracking down on vague sustainability pledges, brands need more than promises. Twinview links operational performance to ESG goals, improves efficiency across sites and gives retailers the credibility to prove impact where it matters most.
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How Digital Twins Could Reframe the Future of Alzheimer’s Care Environments
For people living with Alzheimer’s, the built environment plays a vital role in perception, comfort and care. While dementia-friendly design principles exist, they are static and struggle to keep pace with a condition that constantly changes. Emerging digital twin technology offers a new path forward, creating environments that adapt in real time by monitoring behaviour, adjusting lighting and layouts, supporting wayfinding and utilising early warning systems to prevent disruptions. Unlike today’s fixed standards, digital twins could personalise care continuously, turning buildings into active partners that evolve alongside each resident’s cognitive journey.
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Breathing New Life Into Office Spaces with Digital Twin Technology
The urban skyline, once a symbol of bustling commerce, now narrates the stark reality of post-pandemic shifts as swathes of vacant office space stand as a silent testament to evolving work patterns. The traditional model, built on rigid leases and fixed layouts, is crumbling under the weight of changing tenant demands, and our shifting work dynamics have left a tangible mark. With another rocky year expected for the office market, it underscores the urgent need for innovative solutions to revitalise these now underutilised assets.
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The Intelligent Hotel: Navigating Costs with Digital Twins
The hotel industry, a sector once synonymous with bustling lobbies and seamless service, has weathered numerous challenges over the past decade. From pandemic-induced shutdowns to the relentless squeeze of rising costs and staffing headaches, hotel survival has become a masterclass in adaptation. Room demand reached an all-time high in 2024, according to STR research. As travellers return in mass, expectations have shifted, demanding a level of personalised experience that feels both effortless and intuitive. How do hotels meet the challenge? Enter the digital twin—a virtual representation reflecting the hotel's every heartbeat.
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Understanding Renters' Rights: How Digital Twins Improve Compliance and Property Management
The recent introduction of the Renters' Rights Bill in the UK aims to improve the relationship between tenants and landlords. As part of a broader effort to ensure fairer and more transparent living conditions, this bill ensures that rental properties meet specific standards, including affordability, maintenance, and habitability. Landlords and property managers now face new challenges in complying with evolving regulations. We explore how Digital Twins could support with these new compliance requirements.
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UK AI Investment Surge: Opportunities and Challenges for the Property Sector
The UK government's recent surge in AI investment promises to reshape numerous industries, and the property sector is no exception. By committing to driving AI development, the UK is positioning itself as a leader in technological innovation. Property professionals, from developers to facility managers, must understand AI's evolving landscape to capitalise on its opportunities and navigate its challenges. This article explores how the government's increased AI funding can impact the property sector, focusing on AI's potential benefits, obstacles, and real-world applications.
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Lessons Unlearned: How the Dagenham Fire Highlights the Urgent Need for a Golden Thread of Information
In the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy in 2017, where 72 people lost their lives, the need for a comprehensive approach to building safety became starkly evident. The public inquiry highlighted a devastating reality: critical information about the building's structure, materials, and fire safety measures was either missing, outdated, or scattered across various documents and databases. This fragmentation of information—a far cry from the "Golden Thread" of safety data that should have been in place—played a crucial role in the disaster. Fast forward to 2023, and the fire at an apartment block in Dagenham served as a grim reminder that the lessons of Grenfell have not yet been fully learned.