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Digital Twins could avert tragedies like Grenfell, say industry experts
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Digital Twins – using rich data and visualisation techniques to model things – could help us make smarter, more sustainable decisions for our communities.
(Bola Abisogun)
Digital Twin technology could have saved lives at Grenfell, and perhaps even averted the tragedy completely. That s the claim of Bola Abisogun, OBE, Chairman of DiverseCity Surveyors, a 27-year veteran of the construction industry who is committed to battling inequality with data and informed engineering.
The 2017 disaster, in which 72 residents of the Grenfell Tower in Kensington, London, lost their lives in an inferno, has become a byword for inaction and greed by private contractors, the use of cheap, combustible materials in buildings, and councils lack of insight into the supply chains behind social properties. It s a problem that exists in towns and cities throughout the world, particularly af