The National Institute of Building Sciences is gearing up for their inaugural emerging technologies event, where they will dive into the creation, use, and benefits of digital twins. 

NIBS is currently seeking abstracts to cover the following for vertical assets, horizontal assets, and critical infrastructure:

• Establishing digital twin definitions, use cases, and maturity models
• Helping asset owners align digital twin value drives specific to their needs
• Integration of digital twins and building information modeling (BIM)
•  Design and planning
• Simulation and analysis
• Software and other technology tools
• Real-time construction and operations monitoring 
• Data management to support digital twins
• Building operations and performance
• Asset lifecycle
• IoT and sensor integration
• Records and as-built document management/tracking
• Hazard mitigation, emergency management, and post hazard analysis
• Emerging and future trends

Industry leaders with valuable insights, case studies, best practices, lessons learned, and/or remaining challenges are encouraged to share their knowledge and experiences with a broad audience of building industry stakeholders by submitting an abstract for consideration no later than September 20, 2024. More details can be found here. 

For questions about speaker abstract submissions, contact Jennifer Hitzke at jhitzke@nibs.org. Approved speakers/panelists will be notified on or about October 11, 2024.