Climate emergency: Syntec-Ingénierie calls for the rapid deployment of the digital twin

On the occasion ofInfraBIM Open, international congress dedicated to the digital transformation of Infrastructures, which begins this Monday, January 10, Syntec-Engineering is resolutely in favor of the deployment of the digital twin. Through a position note and video, engineering companies are highlighting the many advantages of the digital twin with regard to the climate emergency. They call for its use to be generalized as quickly as possible, both in construction, industry and infrastructure, in order to achieve carbon neutrality.

The digital twin, a major lever for action in the fight against climate change

With the adoption of the first National Low-Carbon Strategy in 2015, France is committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. While much progress remains to be made, Syntec-Ingénierie calls for the massive deployment of the use of the twin digital. Still too little used, this innovative technological tool nevertheless has enormous potential: it makes it possible to reduce the carbon footprint of all structures to a minimum. A real clone of a real work, it improves the management of its life cycle, at all stages and in real time.

In its position paper, published on the occasion of InfraBIM Open, engineering companies list its advantages, in particular:

• In the specification and preliminary or detailed design phase, it helps from the initiation of the development cycle to objectify the expected requirements and to forecast the investment and operating costs.
• In the prototyping phase, it optimizes performance by simulating it predictively using dedicated multi-physics or behavioral models.
• In the construction or industrialization phase, it can integrate models intended to improve construction and the production chain respectively.
• In the operating phase, coupled with data collected in the operational environment, it makes it possible to correct and adjust to the actual behavior of the structure, to improve its uses.

A complex technological lever, perfectly mastered by system engineering

Optimization of flows, drastic reduction in the quantities of materials and resources used... For example, the renovation of the Bréquigny high school in Rennes via the digital twin has made it possible to divide the price per square meter by 2, and by 2,5 .XNUMX the carbon footprint of construction products, compared to the construction of a new building. If the digital twin is a powerful tool, Syntec-Ingénierie nevertheless insists on the fact that it is a complex tool. And recalls that system engineering has all the necessary skills to exploit its full potential.

For Blaise Sola, Pilot of the Syntec-Ingénierie Digital/Climate Twin GT: “Among the multitude of actors involved in the construction of works, industrial facilities and buildings, engineering stands out for its role as a methodological pilot. Engineering companies have, in fact, the particularity of intervening throughout the life cycle of works. Strong in their overall vision of complex and dynamic systems, they are in the front line to operate the digital twin and call today to its rapid deployment, in view of its multiple potentialities. »