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NEWS, VIEWS AND EVENTS FOR A DIGITAL BUILT AUSTRALIA

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VOLUME 1 SEPT 2023 tempoinstitute.co

WELCOME, AND WHAT

The digital built environment needs to find it's voice, and it needs to get louder CANVAS is one effort to help with this.

It's a publication that will bring to life some of the news and views of our industry, the organisations leading the way and the people behind the transformation.

Every quarter we will feature industry leaders who will contribute a thought piece. They will be handpicked and given a brief to respond to. We will also hear from the research community so we can track the important questions we all need answered.

It's all part of TEMPO's mission to support a digital built Australia.

We welcome feedback and contributors. Contact us at: info@tempoinstitute.co

0.2 AROUND THE NATION

State by State and Territory by Territory, we will track their progress every quarter. We will share what we know, and what is public. Here's the starting position:

NORTHERN TERRITORY

There seems to be a few actions at play in the NT, namely:

A 'virtual twin' of the Northern Territory (NT Government, Secora, Dassault, AMC) A Digital Twin of the city of Darwin (CSIRO)

QUEENSLAND

As per a recent presentation at the Brisbane DTP event, here is their progress:

It's Phase 1 business case complete

The Phase 2 use case development complete and Strategy under development Project funding of $5M allocated for 2023/24 Implementation Plan and Proof of Concept tender currently out to the market

NEW SOUTH WALES

The Land iQ platform continues to build its user base across Departments and its local government partners The NSW Spatial Digital Twin recently picked up a Special Achievement in GIS Award from ESRI, and went to market for new products to be built out.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

There seems to be no public information from the South Australian Government on aspirations for building Digital Twin capability

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

The ACT Government Digital Strategy (2020) references " building a comprehensive accurate digital twin that will add value to all." There seems to be no further public information on this action, however there may be moves afoot to change this...

VICTORIA

Digital Twin Victoria has seen its commercial release of eComply - the extremely valuable Digital Twin use case to accelerate applications under the Small Lot Housing Code Later in 2023 the open specification eComply framework will be released.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Spatial WA is a concept proposing a collaborative ecosystem where agencies can share, discover, and visualise 2D, 3D and 4D data in a model of the real world in near real-time. A tender to build future capability for digital twins is expected in the near future

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Brisbane Powerhouse Partnerships now available. Visit digitaltwinlive.com 4.

Thursday 18th April 2024 The Underground Theatre

0.3 NAILING JELLY TO THE WALL

BY NEIL GLENTWORTH MANAGING DIRECTOR | DUNNEMEDFORTH Board Director Strategy Consultant Digital and Data Leader

The justification of public money being spent on expensive and largely invisible technology requires leaders with conviction.

UNPLUGGED BUT WITH PROMISE

Some tasks feel unattainable I imagine this feels particularly true for those in political life, existing in the digital age. While we all want more digital technology, better and faster, we are quick to find fault in the investments made by our public leaders. The intangible nature of the internet makes the value proposition hard to sell The justification of public money being spent on expensive and largely invisible technology requires leaders with conviction.

Investments in digital technology within the public sector are challenging; my assessment is that they are rarely a vote winner. So, just like the jelly, should we stop trying to nail a digital South East Queensland to the wall because it is too hard?

The path of least resistance is ‘oh-so-easy’ however holds little reward. A digital South East Queensland can only be achieved through real collaboration, it must be more than just words and pictures For digital to become a social and economic force for good, it needs visionary leadership, a champion who can take everyone on the journey - someone with a clear mandate and capital

South East Queensland is on the verge of delivering on the promise of many great things Many bold and brave leaders have come and gone; each has laid crucial foundations to make the South East corner what it is today The most complicated challenges still lie ahead, doing more with less while reducing carbon emissions. If this is what we want, the answer is digital technology. We must be brave and bold to accept that significant public investments are not just bridges, swimming pools, fixed roads, or better stadiums.

Right now, many are watching the rollout of the Ultra Low Emission Zone ‘ULEZ’ in London, England. Digital technology to improve the air quality and lower carbon emissions by taxing what you don’t want (high emission cars) and rewarding (not taxing in this case) what you d nailing jelly to the wall, a profo

While I am not suggesting a ULEZ for South East Queensland, I firmly believe we need a new level of political courage to bring about the social and economic opportunities to this genuinely fabulous part of Australia For technology to make a difference and improve your life, we all must be willing to keep nailing the digital jelly to the wall.

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0.4 RESEARCH MUSINGS

With Pascal Parez Director | Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network

Urban digital twins (UDT) refer to virtual replicas or simulations of physical cities that are created using data from various sources such as sensors, satellite imagery, and social media feeds. These digital twins should provide a detailed and dynamic representation of urban environments, allowing policymakers, city planners, and various stakeholders to analyse and optimize urban systems

Potential benefits of urban digital twins include enabling city planning, resource optimisation, real-time management, predictive analytics and citizen engagement. However, I would argue that significant limitations and shortcomings might lead to the creation of next generation digital fads These limitations include severe data challenges, poor interoperability, high transaction costs, weak business cases, and limited human perspective

Standards Australia’s recent White Paper (2023) on the topic summarises these challenges and recommends drastic action around governance (National leadership and strategy), technology (enabling capabilities and standards), as well as activation through National pilot projects that would federate a largely fragmented landscape to date Australia isn’t an isolated case, even international references such as Singapore struggle to identify long-term business cases that could justify significant investments in UDT technology. 7.

The valley of death lies in two fundamental shortcomings of current UDTs: strong focus on the creation and visualisation of data lakes, and high dependency of the back-end IT infrastructure on specific front-end use cases.

I would argue that we have reached this unfortunate situation due to the premature translation of mature concepts and products from industry (industrial digital twins, IDTs) into the world of urban systems (UDTs) IDTs deal with physical assets and laws of physics; they represent finite and closed systems (think Rolls Royce turbine); they accurately simulate all the functions of the physical asset; they focus on performance and quality control. In contrast, fully functional UDTs should deal with physical, biological and human assets; they should abide by laws of physics, biology and psychology; they try to represent open systems with unclear level of granularity; they struggle to include key urban functions and dynamic processes; their focus is too often narrowly defined by specific use cases. In short, we move from a complex problem (IDTs) to a very complicated situation (UDTs).

The valley of death is real but not unavoidable UDTs need broader access to siloed data that will inform dynamic models UDTs need backend IT infrastructure that is interoperable, reusable and scalable to lower transaction costs for all (public and private sector) More fundamentally, UDTs need to include people as key components of the urban systems they try to replicate and simulate. Cities, real or virtual, without people are just an assemblage of built forms, pipes and wires

0.5 INDUSTRY BODY NOTABLES

PLANNING INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA

PlanTech - Strategy, principles, briefings and working Groups

DIGITAL TWIN PARTNERSHIP

First Year Insights Report released

GEOSPATIAL COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA

Spatial Digital Twins Standards Survey

Western Australia Digital Twin Symposium | November 15 2023

Digital by Default Green Paper CONSULT AUSTRALIA

INFRASTRUCTURE SUSTAINABLITY COUNCIL

ISC Connect annual conference ventured into digital and data

ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA

Future of Transport Discussion Paper

0.6 THE WINNERS CIRCLE

ON OF AUSTRALIA

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OF AUSTRALIA

vation Award Winner 2023App

ESRI AUSTRALIA

Special Achievement in GIS - NSW Department of Customer Service (Spatial Services) for ther NSW

Spatial Digital Twin

0.7 POP! SOUNDBITES FROM THE DIGITAL BUILT AUSTRALIA PODCAST

A library of discussions with city shaping leaders on the intersections of digital, data and the built and natural environment.

If we adopt a digital engineering mindset, will we through those activities create Digital Twins by proxy?

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...professions have always evolved and developed based on technological innovations, and some professions became obsolete and some evolved and some came back.

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Petra Hurtado Director of Research and Foresight American Planning Association

Keri Niven Digital Practice Leader, New Zealand Aurecon

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0.8 WHAT IF BUILDINGS WERE LIVING THEIR BEST

ATHAN TOBECK

OCIATE PRINCIPAL ULOUS

Built Ambassador

But they hardly know their buildings despite them taking hundreds of people and millions of dollars to realise...

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TO BIM AND BEYOND

Our clients know that they want a digital future created from digital assets that provide genuine insights and experiences. They are also getting closer than ever to understanding why they need it Despite this, defining what that future is and how they even get to it, remains very elusive

The environment is full of buzzwords that point to grand ideas of a digital future, although it is a complex task to clearly articulate the real benefit, be it cost, societal or otherwise. Clients can become confused about the potential impacts on project outcomes, therefore view this change with trepidation.

On the other hand, they know everything about their customers - what they eat, what they buy, who they talk to. Who they are. But they hardly know their buildings despite them taking hundreds of people and millions of dollars to realise They need to know their environment like they know their customers.

Getting people accustomed to using social media was easy - people want to connect with others and market themselves Companies want insight into people’s lives, so they encourage its usage. This works because, arguably, tangible benefits are there for everyone, from students through to CEOs

So how do we translate that same attitude into progressing the digitisation of the buildings we inhabit? What is the digital landscape needed in order to show people, at all levels of our supply chain, the benefits and merits of this change?

Should we recalibrate and focus on identifying the pivotal moves that matter, those that people will buy into? Then we could better demonstrate the benefits in a way that is tangible and relatable to people and companies alike. We know the technical way to change and the possibilities that it brings; the cultural side is often the more complex piece of the puzzle, which is something we have all experienced as digital leaders in the industry.

We shifted our company deliverables to the cloud years ago We showed why this mattered and explained it technically ad nauseum, receiving only mild enthusiasm or even disinterest. It turned out that all we needed to do was tell staff that it meant they could work from their own homes – they then bought the idea in a second

What do digital leaders need to say to properly resonate with the people who enjoy the environment we work so hard to create?

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DIGITAL TWIN MICROCREDENTIAL

MODULE 1: Fundamentals

It all starts with the fundamentals - the what, why and how. This module covers definitions, benefits, standards, capabilities and examples of use cases and case studies

MODULE 2: Strategy and Leadership

This module helps you build the necessary strategy and leadership capabilities to advance your Digital Twin journey This module is highly interactive, uses templates, and equips you with a Digital Twin Roadmap

MODULE 3: Use Cases

This module involves an in-depth workshop of how to build effective use cases for your project, in a way that is aligned with your organisation’s strategic goals, community aspirations and built environment context.

MODULE 4: Technology and Data Enablers

The last piece of the Digital Twin puzzle is to have a plan to grow your technology and data capability that supports your use cases In this module you will be oriented with the key decisions you must navigate in selecting your technology and data enablers, and their purpose

New dates released for the 2-day microcredential bootcamp. Register at: tempoinstitute.co

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0.9 THE COMMONS

Digital built readings and videos from around the place, sector by sector

ENERGY

Neara has created a 3D digital twin model for Essential Energy (article) The World Economic Forum identifies digitalisation in our energy future (artcle)

WATER

How digitisation is greening the water sector, (article) Australian Water Association Digital Reference Framework, (download) from the Water Services Association Australia

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Indara Digital Infrastrusture announces partnership with vHive (article)

Nokia has identified four areas of Digital Twin focus for the telco industry (article)

MINING

A summary (article) of digital transformation in Australia's mining sector can be found here

CITY PLANNING AND URBAN MANAGEMENT

ChatGPT: Implications for Planning, (QuickNote) American Planning Association Bing Maps Global Building Footprints Released (article), Microsoft

TRANSPORTATION

Transport for NSW Technology Roadmap signals a real-time Digital Twin (article) Validating the benefits of increased drone uptake in Australia, CRC iMove (report/video)

LANDSCAPE

BIM and Landscape Architecture, (video) Australian Institute of Landscape Architects

PROPERTY

Taronga Ventures and Deloitte release new paper - Technology: A Driving Force for ESG in Real Estate and Infrastructure

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0.10 OFFSHORE

CANADA

Carleton University and their ambitious proposition: Imagining Canada’s Digital Twin

NEW ZEALAND

Digital Twin Partnership launches in New Zealand

SOUTH EAST ASIA

Singapore expands Digital Twin capability to health system to surveil disease outbreaks

UNITED KINGDOM

The UK Transport Research and Innovation Board releases the Transport Digital Twin Vision and Roadmap to 2035

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Atlantic Council has published a paper calling for a Federal Digital Twin Strategy

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Digital Built Australia is a podcast that explores digital and data innovation in the built and natural environments

On the DBA podcast, you'll hear from experts and thought leaders who have transformed their fields and have valuable advice and best practices to share.

Season two has launched, with a new longer format with multiple guests.

Episode 13

Digitally transforming high speed rail 16.

0.11 REVEAL

Digital Twin Live breaks the mould.

It's time to get out of the stuffy hotel function room and convention centre, and into an immersive environment where you get amongst it.

No powerpoint. No scripted panels. Just dialogue.

Join us on Thurs 18 April 2023 at the Underground Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse.

Here’s the draft agenda...

9:00-10:30AM

| The Digital Twin Region

Opening intensity - positioning SEQ as the blueprint capital

10:30-11:00AM 11:00AM-12:30PM

12:30-1:30PM

1:30-2:30PM

2:30-3:30PM

3:30-4:00PM 4:00-4:30PM

4:30-5:00PM 5:00PM +

| Break

| Policy Insights, Investment Futures

Industry leaders build a fundable digital built policy template

| Lunch

| 7 x 7

Digital built discussions, seven minutes each, one-on-one - GO!

| The Tech We Want

What should tech companies focus on in the next 3 years?