Nemetschek Group, a provider of AEC/O software, and Hexagon’s Geosystems division, a global leader in digital reality solutions, have formed a strategic partnership to accelerate digital transformation.
As a first step, the partnership aims to drive digital twin adoption by offering customers an integrated end-to-end workflow for efficient and sustainable building operations.
While huge amounts of data are created during the lifecycle of a building, much of this information resides in silos and becomes outdated over time. Such incomplete and archaic information leads to poor and error-prone decisions, which negatively affect a building’s performance and increase operational costs.
Nemetschek and Hexagon believe digital twins are key in transforming the industry and overcoming the challenges building owners and operators are facing by enhancing visibility, increasing efficiency and delivering data-driven insights.
dTwin, Nemetschek’s new horizontal, open and cloud-based digital twin platform delivers data-driven insights and helps customers to efficiently manage facilities from design to operations. It is the first solution in the industry that fuses all data sources of a building in one overarching view. dTwin is bringing together all relevant information from CAD/BIM, IWMS and more with the real-time streams from building operations and thus provides value via visualisation, data analysis and assets management. With the platform, owners and operators can optimise building operations based on real-time information and data-funded decision criteria.
End-to-end digital twin workflow
Hexagon leverages its end-to-end reality capture and Scan2BIM solutions to automatically capture accurate and real-time field data to create digital twins across all sectors. Furthermore, it uses its AI-powered solutions to support building analytics and simulations, generate progress insights, as well as provide an immersive experience navigating assets during design, construction and operations through its VR/AR and positioning technology.
Jointly, Nemetschek and Hexagon will provide customers with the tools, services and expertise for an end-to-end digital twin workflow by joining the up-to-date building data through Hexagon’s latest reality capture solutions with the smart and efficient building operations powered by Nemetschek’s dTwin.
“We are very excited to partner with Hexagon”, said César Flores Rodríguez, chief division officer, planning & design and digital twin at the Nemetschek Group. “Together, we will build digital twins for the large market of existing buildings, making those futureproof. Also, we aim to address efficient and sustainable building operations and smart renovation, retrofit or revitalisation projects.”
Thomas Harring, president of the geosystems division at Hexagon, added: “The future is here – digital twins make work easier, insights available and decisions better. With that, they are paving the way for a more sustainable future. Through our combined strength, we make this a reality for our customers and supercharge the buildings and infrastructure industry with data continuity and digital twins at scale.
