To begin, we can use digital technology to offer more advanced ways to conduct onsite processes which aren’t normally digitalised, such as counting rebar.

It’s possible that a digital twin could be real time, but it’s not a requirement.Sharp explains that thorough investigation of historic data is more important.

In other words, do the lights always go down when it rains?Analysis of this type of pattern data is just as likely to help us achieve higher performing services as real time data.. Data and The National Digital Twin.As such, the National Digital Twin isn’t meant to be a one-to-one map of everything.

The aim is to keep the data as close to the creator as possible, and to keep the creator in control.The National Digital Twin aims to create a translation mechanism called the Information Management Framework.

This won’t be a massive data store sitting in the cloud.

Instead, it’s a federated system allowing different parties to find and use data from other sources, and to check whether they’re allowed to do so..It is not enough for a hospital to be excellent when it first opens its doors..

It must also be excellent next year, in 10 years’ time and 10 years after that.It must be able to respond not only to its own changing requirements, but those of local and neighbouring environments, populations and infrastructure.

As we have seen over 2020, those changes can be radical and terrifyingly fast.But as we have also seen over the last 20 years, healthcare priorities can be affected by political and social as much as natural changes.. We are also faced with a climate crisis that requires every building to be designed and built for reduction in both embodied and operational carbon..