Nemetschek Group enters into partnership with Hexagon

Initially, the partnership drives the adoption of digital twins by offering their clients a seamlessly integrated end-to-end workflow for efficient and sustainable construction operations.

While enormous amounts of data are created over the lifecycle of a building, most of this valuable information is stored in silos and becomes obsolete over time. This incomplete and archaic information leads to erroneous decisions that negatively affect a building's performance and increase operating costs. Both Nemetschek Group and Hexagon believe digital twins are essential to transforming the industry and addressing the challenges facing building owners and operators. A digital twin improves long-term insight, increases efficiency and provides data-driven insights.

dTwin, the new digital twin platform from Nemetschek Group – horizontal, open and cloud-based – provides data-driven insights and thus helps customers efficiently manage facilities from design to operation. It is the industry's first solution that merges all of a building's data sources into a single overview. dTwin brings together all relevant information from CAD/BIM, IWMS, and more, with real-time feeds of construction operations. It thus provides value through visualization, data analysis and asset management. Through this platform, owners and operators can optimize building operations based on real-time information and data-driven decision criteria.

Hexagon leverages its end-to-end reality capture and Scan2BIM solutions to automatically collect accurate field data in real-time to create digital twins across industries. Additionally, Hexagon uses its AI-based solutions to:

• Facilitate the analysis and simulation of buildings,
• Generate information on work progress
• Providing an immersive asset navigation experience during design, construction and operations through its VR/AR technology as well as positioning technology.

Together, Nemetschek Group and Hexagon will provide customers with the tools, services and expertise for an end-to-end digital twin workflow. This is done by combining up-to-date building data provided by Hexagon's latest reality capture solutions with intelligent, efficient construction operations powered by Nemetschek's dTwin system.

For César Flores Rodríguez, Chief Division Officer Planning & Design, and Jumeau Numérique Twin within the Nemetschek Group: “We are very excited to partner with Hexagon. Together we will build digital twins for the vast existing buildings market, to future-proof them. We also aim for the efficient and sustainable operation of buildings and intelligent renovation, improvement or rehabilitation projects. »

For Thomas Harring, president of the Geosystems division of Hexagon : “The future is here – digital twins make work easier, enable better understanding and improve decision-making processes. They thus open the way to a more sustainable future. Through our joint strength, we are making this a reality for our customers and boosting the buildings and infrastructure sector with data sustainability and digital twins on a larger scale. »

By bringing together precise building data and visual reality; information from CAD/BIM, IWMS and real-time flows of building operations, a digital twin enables data-driven decision-making and true Building Lifecycle Intelligence.