Digital Twins Rise Up in Infrastructure Construction

The infrastructure construction market is facing numerous challenges: aging infrastructure, population growth, climate change, new burdens on the electrical grid, an aging workforce, and increased complexity of projects, just to name a few. This is creating a perfect storm—and a perfect opportunity for new technologies such as digital twins.

This is the conversation I had recently on The Peggy Smedley Show with Michael Campbell, chief product officer, Bentley Systems, who says the infrastructure construction market is ripe for leveraging technology like digital twins.

“There is this interesting dynamic,” he explains. “We have these professionals who have been doing things the same for a long time. We have new people coming into the workforce that sometimes it feels like they were born with a tablet in their hands. It is an interesting time.”

At its core, the digital twin is a collection of information from disparate sources. He explains that ...