This webinar looks at how delivering a Digital Twin collaborative partnership between University Estates and Academic departments through a Living Lab style approach can deliver rich results and unlock alternative funding routes.

1. Future of the
Higher Education
Estate
David Ross
ICL Partner Operations Manager at IES
Gillian Brown,
Energy Manager at the University of Glasgow
Impact of COVID-19 and Net-Zero Targets

2. Creating Updated Conditions for learning
• Healthy, Safe & comfortable environments
• Redesigning multi-disciplinary spaces
• IT, academic and estates teams working together
Zero-Carbon targets
• Big campus re-development plans
• Student engagement and feedback
• Sustainability/Technology Leadership aspirations
Decision making
• How do you scenario plan about something you’ve never
seen before?
• Needs to be agile, with regular reviews
• Must involve all levels of management
• Detailed analysis to really understand investment case
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Challenges facing Higher Education

3. www.iesve.com
Applications of Digital
Twin Technology

4. www.iesve.com

5. www.iesve.com
Digital Twin: Valuable Asset for improving
performance across the whole lifecycle

6. Digital Twins: Net Zero Pathway
Create a Digital Twin using real building data – the baseline now behaves and responds like the physical asset

7. Digital Twins: Net Zero Pathway
Investigate data to identify where energy is being wasted, these are typically low cost, quick wins

8. Digital Twins: Net Zero Pathway
Simulate the impact of retrofit measures with confidence in the accuracy of your results prior to implementation

9. Digital Twins: Net Zero Pathway
Consider how to meet energy demands using shared energy networks and energy trading solutions

10. Digital Twins: Net Zero Pathway
Evaluate the impact of different renewable energy generators to achieve operational zero carbon

11. Technology Partner
ACADEMICS /
STUDENTS
ESTATES
DEPARTMENT + +
Living Laboratory
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12. Living Lab: IES
As a Technology Partner, IES provides:
• Licenses/access to our Digital Twin Technology for:
• Academics
• Estates Department
• Students (Personal)
• Key Stakeholders
• Training and support to Lecturers and Estates
• Course content / programme support
• Initial Digital Twin of the campus
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13. Living Lab: Academics/Students
Undergraduate Courses
Students build up the Campus Digital Twin with basic information from
individual buildings.
Final Year/Masters
Advance the Campus Digital Twin with more detailed information on each
of the individual buildings.
Masters/PhD
• Create calibrated Digital Twins and simulate improvement measures
• Collect live metered data and use dashboards for data management,
fault detection and alerts
• Create decarbonisation road-map for the campus
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14. Living Lab: Estates Department
Using the Digital Twins
• Access and interrogate the Digital Twin(s) via web-based platform
• Utilise Digital Twin Technologies to run simulations
Applications
• Energy management tool
• Decarbonisation road-mapping
• Assessing sustainability goals
• Reducing operational costs
• Investigate renovation strategies
• Testing post-COVID occupancy scenarios
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15. Living Lab: Benefits
Academics
• Up-to-date course content
• Enhanced educational tools
Students
• Applied Learning: real-world experiences and interactions
• Employability skills
Estates Department
• Improved decision-making
• Digital asset for entire lifecycle
• Access to academic funding routes through collaboration
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17. Students + Staff
40,000
Buildings on
Campus
Over 200
Total Area
250 hectares
Green Mark
buildings
57
Built-up space
10 million sq.ft
Residents
15,000
NTU
Singapore
Vision
To be the greenest campus in the world
Goal
To reduce energy, water and waste footprints by
35% by 2020 based on the 2011 baseline.
Process: Ci2 (Collect, Investigate, Compare, Invest)
Ci2 process to be used to identify energy savings.
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18. NTU Singapore – Initial Masterplan Analysis (iCD)
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19. NTU Singapore – Campus Information Model (iCIM)
Energy Reduction (%) 2011 - 2015
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20. 10%
8.2kt
S$3.9M
Campus Energy
Consumption reduced
Carbon Savings
Financial Savings
(Singapore Dollars)
Phase 1
Results
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21. NTU Singapore – Collect and Investigate data phases of Ci2
Collect Operational Data:
 Utility Bills
 Automated Meter Readings (AMR)
 BMS Data
 Operational information
Investigate (using iSCAN):
 Interrogate time series data
 Set alerts and alarms to help to rapidly interrogate
multiple channels
 Discovered hidden energy savings
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22. NTU Singapore – Detailed Digital Twins of 21 buildings created (using VE)
Compare: Virtual BMS information assigned to each Digital Twin
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23. 23
NTU Singapore – Compare & Invest (VE, iSCAN and Calibration)
VE Building Digital Twin
Assign time-
series data
from iSCAN
Hybrid Model
M&V
calibration
test
Hybrid Calibrated Model
Identify best option
Invest: Monitor savings
Simulate 5 options
Compare
scenarios
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Scenario Models

24. 31%
9.6kt
S$5M
Campus Energy
Consumption reduced
Carbon Savings
Financial Savings
(Singapore Dollars)
Phase 2
Results
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25. NTU Singapore – Multi-building cooling system (iVN)
Buildings
considered
for cooling
system
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NTU Singapore – Carbon emissions savings

27. The digital twin IES produced for
the NTU EcoCampus in Singapore is
“one of the best examples” currently
available of “digital twins delivering
measurable environmental and cost
improvements on large scale.”
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James Scott
Lead Researcher at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology Real Estate Innovation Lab
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28. Thank you for
your attention
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David.Ross@iesve.com
Gillian.Brown.2@glasgow.ac.uk