Discover an expert view and experience on building operations optimisation, AI anomaly detection, energy efficiency and cost savings.
Building Digital Twin technology brings significant business benefits for commercial real estate, facility management, energy optimisation and smart building operations. Today a building digital twin goes far beyond a 3D model. It can connect BIM information, building systems, IoT sensors, energy consumption, maintenance information and real-time operational data in one digital environment. In Europe, the market includes large technology companies such as Autodesk and Siemens as well as more specialized digital twin platforms such as HiPerWare, Willow, UTwin and TwinLogic. This article compares six companies active in the European building digital twin market.
Most buildings were constructed long before the BIM era, and their architectural and engineering documentation exists only in PDF, DWG or paper form. Creating a 3D model retrospectively is not always economically viable. However, it is exactly these buildings that need to improve energy efficiency and data transparency in order to meet the requirements of GEG, BEHG, CSRD and ESG.
How Live Digital Twin Learned to Talk to Humans – and What This Changes in Building Operations As live digital twins evolve, a building ceases to be merely a collection of observable parameters and becomes a cognitive system - capable of understanding its own condition, explaining it, learning from operational experience, and continuously refining its behaviour. The logical continuation of this evolution is the ability to speak to humans in a human language.
In five years, a building's value will be determined not only by its location and rental income but also by the quality of its technical operation data. Those already implementing "live" digital twins today gain a dual advantage: operational savings in the short term and increased value in the long term.
In a few years, the value of a building will be determined not only by its location and rental income, but also by the quality of data on its operation. In the traditional model, information is fragmented, collected manually, and unsuitable for analysis. With the HiPerWare platform, operation becomes manageable in real time: data is collected continuously with reference to the "anatomy", analysed by AI, and forms the evidence base for ESG and financial decisions.
On March 10, 2026, new requirements for the use of BIM in federal infrastructure projects came into force in Germany. The BIM model is no longer seen solely as a tool for design and construction coordination. It is becoming part of the life cycle of a facility, in line with the information management logic enshrined in ISO 19650. The key change is the mandatory transfer of a structured digital model to the operational phase. Read more in our article.
Increasing energy efficiency requirements and growing operating costs make peak load control a critical task in building operation. Unlike traditional BMS systems, HiPerWare can see how energy is distributed within a building and how energy consumption peaks are formed and developed. The HiPerWare platform collects data from not only BMS or EMS, but also hundreds of sensors that measure consumption, temperature, pressure, and other processes in real time.
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