Projects How they’re building BMW’s new EV plant inside the old one, fast German consultant Drees & Sommer has described how it is steering a €650m conversion of BMW’s main factory in Munich to prepare it for producing cars with electric-only drive systems…
Trends China’s “City of the Future” will have one big brain China’s city of the future, the Xiong’an New Area in Hebei Province, has been fitted with a $156m Urban Computing Centre that will act as its brain, storing a digital…
Innovation Hamburg creates digital twin of Köhlbrand Bridge to stay on top of maintenance Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) in Germany has been able to start predictive – rather than reactive – maintenance on the city’s Köhlbrand Bridge thanks to a digital twin of the…
Innovation Care home digital twin sparks same physiological reactions as real thing, study shows An experiment in Sweden has shown that elderly people have the same physiological and emotional responses when exploring a desktop digital twin of a care home as they do when…
News French team to use virtual twin to rebuild Ukraine’s Chernihiv Ukraine has lined up a consortium of French companies to rebuild parts of Chernihiv destroyed in the Russian invasion. The city of 280,000 people some 100km north of Kyiv was…