The Digital Twin Cities Centre (DTCC) is set to embark on its next phase, with a five-year extension approved by Vinnova. Beginning in 2025, DTCC 2 will focus on driving sustainable urban development, bridging research and industry, and delivering practical tools to revolutionize city planning and construction in Sweden.
Urban densification influences wind, temperature, noise, daylight and air quality in both city scales and microscales like streets, neighbourhoods, parks. While software for wind simulation is available and best-practise guidelines have been formulated throughout the years, this is not the case for the simulation of heat. As climate change poses significant challenges on the built environment e.g. in form of heat waves and heavy storms, a resilient and liveable city can only be developed when the abovementioned environmental aspects are considered throughout the planning process.
The Digital Twin Cities Centre has received approval to continue its research for another five years. The centre has successfully completed numerous projects and is now planning for the future.
In the ever-evolving landscape of urban development, ensuring environmental sustainability is paramount. However, the complexities of analyzing various environmental factors often pose significant challenges. Through digital twinning we could revolutionize how we assess urban developments. In a research article published on Taylor and Francis online, “Towards digital twinning for multi-domain simulation workflows in urban design: a case study in Gothenburg”, work is presented within the area.
This year we will present our Milestone Projects within DTCC in the form of digital lunch seminars via Zoom. Join us and learn more about the research being done in the Digital Twin area!
A new video has been released as part of the Miljövis II project – part of the DTCC Milestone Project Twinable. The transdisciplinary project MiljöVis II aims to further develop and scale up new methods and solutions for 3D-visualization of invisible data (air, sound, and social consequences) in large scale infrastructure models, developed in an earlier project (MiljöVis I).
Urban design is evolving, and sustainability and inclusivity is now on the agenda. Pedestrian movement is an important part of it, and with the contribution of effective modeling of pedestrian flows, urban planning can promote sustainable mobility, reduce carbon emissions, enhance public health, and foster social cohesion. Within DTCC, the milestone project Crowd Movement has been working to link macroscale and microscale simulations to predict pedestrian movement flows. The project has now released its first research report.
Read morePedestrian movement modeling crucial for urban planning
The DTCC board of directors has decided to welcome Skanska as the newest center partner.
This week DTCC organized a 3-day workshop titled “Urban Digital Twins: Data Models, Use-Cases, and Data Models.” Researchers from Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, and Sweden gathered to delve into the cutting-edge advancements in urban digital twins and present their latest research findings.
Read moreInternational DTCC workshop brings together Digital Twin researchers
Last week the DTCC Board approved the final milestone project financed by the centre in its first period (2020 – 2024). “Twin Re-Fab” will develop a workflow for circular renovation and reuse based on digital fabrication and robotic construction techniques.