Los Angeles to demonstrate digital twins in decarbonising buildings
Los Angeles’ Better Buildings Challenge is partnering with urban digital twin provider Cityzenith on the ‘Clean Cities – Clean Future’ project.
The project aims to implement Cityzenith’s SmartWorld Digital Twin product in Los Angeles’ Bunker Hill area to explore the use of this technology to enable buildings owners to simulate their optimum financial paths to net zero emissions.
Los Angeles Better Buildings Challenge is a community of building owners representing 14 million m2 of commercial real estate space committed to ‘going green’.
As virtual replicas of real buildings urban digital twins may be used to simulate and improve operations.
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“We look forward to working with Cityzenith to demonstrate how its urban digital twin technology can support the shift to net zero in this important area of Los Angeles, through simulating different potential scenarios and recommending the optimal combination of projects and financial strategies to make the whole thing work,” said LA Better Buildings Challenge director David Hodgins,
“The wider potential for the rest of Los Angeles, the state of California and nationally and globally is enormous.”
Los Angeles joins a number of other major US cities in the ‘Clean Cities – Clean Future’ initiative, including New York, Phoenix and Las Vegas.
Michael Jansen, CEO and Founder of Cityzenith, adds there is need to decarbonise almost six million buildings in America in the next 10 years but until recently the technological tools have not existed.
“A building’s data can be the key to enabling emissions reduction at scale, citywide.”
SmartWorld is an AI-driven platform designed to analyse and optimise the myriad variables in a green building project – electrification, renewables and financial incentives, among others.
The project also should demonstrate how net-zero buildings are cheaper to operate and attract higher rents and valuations.
