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Building a Smart Campus: A Digital Twin Journey Powered by Innovation and Partnership

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Throughout 15 years of collaboration, Windover Construction and Endicott College have embarked on more than 25 design-build projects, transforming the campus located on Boston's North Shore to accommodate growing student enrollment. This partnership has seen the construction of new classrooms, laboratories, and residence halls, as well as a student center, a main dining hall, and an auditorium. The trust Endicott placed in Windover empowered the firm to become a steward of the college's growth, interweaving the institution's history and vision into each project. This case study will explore the digital transformation journey from scan-to-building information modeling (BIM), digital handover, and the innovative use of digital twins and IoT to enable real-time data collection, enhancing facilities management, and paving the way for a smarter, more efficient campus. Join us for an insightful exploration featuring perspectives from Endicott College's facilities director, the virtual design and construction (VDC) team behind the digital-twin models, and an Autodesk expert.

Key Learnings

  • Explore the challenges and opportunities for a campus with a range of "digitally mature buildings."
  • Discover the benefits of digital handover.
  • Gain insights into the planning and alignment required between facilities and AEC to build a smart campus.

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  • Фотография профиля Amr Raafat
    Amr Raafat
    As Chief Innovation Officer at Windover Construction, Amr leverages technology to optimize project delivery. He previously led the virtual design and construction team and the Innovations for Design, Engineering, and Automation, IDEA™ platform providing leading-edge technology services to streamline the construction process. With more than 20 years of experience combining architecture, construction, and engineering, he’s a champion of pioneering construction technologies to streamline project procurement. Amr received the ‘Innovator of the Year’ award as part of the 2019 Autodesk AEC Excellence Awards. He received his master’s degree in architecture from Boston Architectural College. Amr is Autodesk Digital Builder newest Insider, contributing with articles and content to inspire the innovation transformation in the AEC industry.
  • Фотография профиля Karina Cardenas
    Karina Cardenas
    As a Customer Adoption Specialist for Autodesk Tandem, I'm driven by a passion for understanding what Design, Construction, and Facility Management teams value in our built environment. I thrive on aligning these insights to achieve common goals and capture key lessons to enhance our processes. With experience in Construction Management, Energy Efficiency Consulting, and Software Account Management, my greatest strength—and joy—lies in collaborating with diverse teams, sharing experiences, and transforming challenges into opportunities. I excel at improving workflows through technology, saving time and boosting efficiency in daily operations.
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      AMR RAAFAT: Hello, everyone. We are excited to be with you today to share some real life examples of how to build a smart campus. Over the years, Windover had a great partnership with Endicott College, and we've been honored to bring their vision to life with their smart campus. We built together a lot of great buildings for one of the most growing and one of the most beautiful campuses in New England.

      We today will go through. I'm Amr Raafat, Chief Innovation Officer at Windover leads a VDCE, Virtual [INAUDIBLE] Construction Team and push innovation through our life cycle from the time we do recon throughout Andover and even post construction with Digital Twins, as you will see today.

      A little bit about Windover We build everything except maybe hospitals. We've been working on some of the most prestigious campuses in New England. We are the go to for modular construction in this area, and we built a lot of modular construction over the years. We built in-house expertise with great superintendents, great project managers, combined with innovation to push the most efficient and effective, innovative ways to build.

      We built life science. And we like challenge. As you will see, we tackle the challenges in construction with innovative solution. Technology for us is not just cool, it's more about solving an issue or a challenge on job sites. And we do that through partnerships, great partnerships and collaborations, as we've been doing with Autodesk and Autodesk Tandem and Endicott College. So excited to be with you too, with Rick and Karina today to share all these different examples of how to use innovation to push efficiencies in construction.

      We also have at Windover a global reach with innovation. We've been supporting through our idea platform within Windover projects around the world. In Melbourne, in the UAE and around the US, with laser scans, BIM coordination, Digital Twins. And through that we've been able to push innovation throughout larger than our area, New England, to push innovations through the industry and support partners, architects and engineers to utilize innovative solutions throughout the life cycle of a project.

      RICK GAGNON: Hi, everyone. I'm Rick Gagnon. I'm the EVP of facility operations here at Endicott College. A little about Endicott. We're a small liberal arts school that was founded in 1939. We're roughly 20 miles north of Boston on a 235 acre oceanfront campus. We have a population of around 3,000 students on campus, and facilities management really supports the mission of the school. Our partnership with Windover has been amazing. They've helped us bring our vision to reality over the last 15 years or so.

      KARINA CARDENES: Hi, everyone. My name is Karina and I'm a customer adoption specialist with Autodesk Tandem. Autodesk Tandem is a digital twin solution designed to deliver smarter buildings and operational excellence. Tandem leverages BIM as a foundation to visualize and contextualize data. Owner operators like Endicott College care about to make managing their buildings more efficient.

      My role on the Tandem team is to help customers adopt Tandem from helping refine their digital twin goals to providing pilot implementation guidance, as well as providing access to technical expertise and creating a direct channel to product feedback. Candidly, I personally did none of the above with Windover and Endicott College leading up to this recording.

      But while I wasn't involved in their implementation, I know Rick as well as their project team and college, really represent the collaboration and innovation needed between the AEC industry and owner operators to adopt digital twins. And I'm very happy they invited me to represent the Tandem perspective and that we can all share in their lessons learned.

      AMR RAAFAT: So we are excited to be with you today to share the success story at Endicott College. Over the last 15 years, Windover built-- we've been honored to build a lot of design, build projects together at Endicott College. This has been a result of innovative solutions and embracing new ideas and new technologies. And the trust.

      What we want to highlight today, actually, is also the people aspects, because innovation has the tools, the technologies we use, as well as the people aspect of this. How a collaboration and partnerships between a visionary educational institution, such as-- academic institutions such as Endicott College and the innovative construction company as Windover, together with collaboration with Autodesk, can really push our industry forward and leverage technologies in real life projects and provide value for the projects. Whether it's time savings, cost savings, or even exceeding schedule.

      In the academic world, you will notice some of these examples is that schedule is a key to make sure that students will go to those dorms on time. So one of the most important things we utilize technology over the years is to meet schedules or even exceed the time for schedule and deliver on time and on budget. As you see here, this video is-- what you see here, a drone mapped site.

      We scan the whole campus at Endicott College with a drone, and that's for other purposes. In this video, we did it, including all the elevations with ground control points, to support the future planning and growth of the beautiful campus at Endicott College. We also utilized it to tell that story for the community and plan the future projects on site. As you see here, since 2004 to 2020, this has been the different growth projects that we built over the years.

      RICK GAGNON: Yeah, we've used this technology. It's allowed us to really make informed decisions for our operations, as well as for future planning. It allowed us to grow our campus thoughtfully.

      AMR RAAFAT: So as we see here, we stopped most of our projects. It's a standard for us to utilize 4D planning, and that includes modeling in Revit, all the different components we use 3D Max and other softwares to leverage and create the storytelling. What you're looking at is a sync it to schedule as a key milestone to the left. And we use this-- [AUDIO OUT] --two tools. This technology was a 4D planning to communicate to the community, the fence lines, the different phases, and to as well as-- and set the safety planning, as well as communicating with our trade partners for foundation pours and the sequence. And this is a key way to communicate visually with all project stakeholders.

      RICK GAGNON: Yeah, mean Amr is right on. 4D modeling has been a great tool to help us communicate with the Endicott community to show all the different phases of the project, whether it's areas or walkways to get around during construction site, and how they're impacted. And this has helped safely help us navigate pedestrian traffic throughout campus or identify locations to have events during construction.

      AMR RAAFAT: One of the other ways we've been utilizing over the years is drone mapping and drone scans with ground control points to do LiDAR scans as well with drones. We invested into that because it's more than an eye in the sky, more beyond taking pictures. It's more about collecting accurate data to support our estimating teams and our field teams to do accurate site analysis.

      One of the unique things about the site at Endicott college, we had ledge in the quad building. One of the buildings is a beautiful building we built there at Endicott, and we were able to during construction through different intervals, scan with our drone and capture data that's important to give it in real time to the field team to quantify. And can basically manage the site in the most efficient way possible.

      RICK GAGNON: Scanning also helps with the efficiency of the project to help it avoid scheduling delays or any other costly [INAUDIBLE] issues.

      AMR RAAFAT: One of the ways also we use the technology over the years. And we are here now telling a story of how innovative solutions been applied to building the smart campus. We have a unique here partnership that through the years we built different buildings with different challenges, site challenges as well. This one, for example, we used a mixed reality. Windover has been one of the very early implementers in using mixed reality on site.

      And what it does is that we overlay 3D models over design models and coordinated models over the existing conditions to ensure coordination and safety planning. As you see here, this is a Endicott College quad building. And we use-- we've been leveraging some of the technologies we partnership with them through our Autodesk Technology Center in Boston. Residency photogram where we use this technology with QR codes. With QR codes. And it locks the accuracy to an eighth of an inch, which is exactly what we need for NEB coordination like this, or on site coordination.

      Our NEB managers, our superintendents along with the architect and work on site and see how the future designs will be overlaid over the existing conditions. Of the other two technologies we've been leveraging at Endicott college, this beautiful nursing school here. We use the virtual reality not only to communicate how it will look in the future, but also to manage a selection of materials, manage change, as well as showing the community how the future building will look like even before starting construction.

      RICK GAGNON: During design, we leveraged this immersive technology with Windover's help. We set up VR stations so faculty and staff and other end users could better understand the scale of the project, or interject ideas to provide feedback or ways we can improve the design. So Windover has been great in bringing that stuff to our campus to help us.

      AMR RAAFAT: This project, for example, the nursing school is like building basically a hospital. Everything there really-- has to be according to the faculty use. So we use the VR to set this expectation to see where the people who is actually going to use the space to teach about nursing and all these great things. They can check the reaches, they can check the spaces and set expectations, and give feedback in a very immersive experience, much better than looking only into a screen or even into to a 2D drawings.

      One of the most effective and efficient ways Windover has been leveraging technology and innovative solutions is through modular construction. Over the last 15 years, we've been one of the leaders of using modular construction. And at Endicott College it has been very instrumental.

      For example, this project at the Peter Frates Dorm we were able to deliver 225 beds delivered in months, cutting time on site. One of the great things about coordinating that in them, making sure all the offsite components will fit perfectly when it arrived on site with the offsite elements. The biggest challenge in offsite construction is if you have components built miles away, in this case it was Canada in Quebec, and they arrive and they have they fit perfectly. So we use always a system of [INAUDIBLE] using laser scans on site to communicate in real time the as built conditions. So when it arrived, all these different components will arrive and fit perfectly on site.

      One of the challenges, for example, for that project was that we had a snowstorm here in Boston, snowstorm after snowstorm. And don't think of a way that we could have delivered this project on time and have all the different, I think, 295 students have a beautiful dorms on time without using modular construction. It allowed us to do all the offsite construction, all the coordination, and minimize time on site so we can deliver. You can see here the store.

      RICK GAGNON: Yeah, that farmer. That was a pretty crazy winter with 108 inches here in New England. And his Amr said, using that module construction really sped up the process, but helped us, allowed us to build in the controlled environment. And in order to get these boxes on site and get it built in time.

      AMR RAAFAT: One of the ways technology is really evolving and empowering us, as you see here, this beautiful Standish Hall, for example, when you look at it, it's got some on site components and modular construction. You don't tell that's a component. One of the myth about modular construction that has to be a shoe box, or a box. As you see here, it's a beautiful design that accommodates lids the architect, with all these new technologies, with coordinating everything in LS Works. and all these coordination technologies we have. It's empowering architects to design flexible spaces, humane spaces that looks good and function well, as well as built in the most efficient ways, with modular construction.

      We been leveraging a lot of technologies such as documenting asphalt. It's a standard for us to document in wall scans. So 10 years from now, clients will deliver a package, so clients can know what's behind the ceilings and walls in each room. And in modular construction, we do that as well in the factory as pieces are getting together.

      This is an example from a science building at Endicott College that we used Autodesk Recap to deliver this tour, and we can make measurements and they send in wall scan, see all the ducts. It's a very instrumental tool as a part of the handover we're going to talk about today.

      RICK GAGNON: And this also helps us incredibly with doing some exploratory-- when we're doing on projects now, and when we're doing-- looking at existing conditions. Previously we used to look at building information via blueprints or our own manuals. Our partnership with Windover and leveraging this technology has allowed us to make this process so much more efficient. This makes things easier for my team to troubleshoot or plan for the future. It's been terrific.

      AMR RAAFAT: We sometimes think that the life cycle of the project ends when we deliver the project. But it's for the client. It's really where-- it starts when we deliver the project. So we make sure that during different intervals of the project that we document such data that can be beneficial for the future to empower the facility managers and the school for years to come with this data. Any future additions or renovations you would like to do, you know what's behind ceilings and walls.

      So for years we've been-- it's a standard for us, by the way, to coordinate everything in BIM with BIM coordination, all the trades. Windover goes through a comprehensive BIM coordination to make sure before fabrication we have everything that will fit on site. Most of it.

      So what happens is that we ended up with a fully coordinated BIM data. And in the past, we used to deliver this data to facility managers, and they don't have to be BIM experts, so I don't think it's been utilized. They would rather have those 360 views. But we didn't utilize, and it didn't make sense to us after all this coordination effort, we wanted to do with a little bit more investment. Deliver something usable that empower facility managers for years to come. Something that doesn't require a BIM expert to use, but it needs the expertise of the facility manager to utilize it and the streamlines our facility management and operations.

      So in each school, we do a lot of academic projects in prestigious schools around here. And we found that each school has a room like this. And it has a room that has existing drawings as bolts. The days has gone where you have to deliver an assembled 2D drawings like that, or even a BIM data that not everyone can utilize. That opens the door for us that we thought about delivering a comprehensive digital twin that is beyond the 3D model.

      What makes a digital twin a digital twin is really the rich data embedded into that model. And when we got where one of the very early implementers of Autodesk Tandem technology. When we got this opportunity to leverage digital twins with Tandem, we found an opportunity here that was a little bit creativity and a little bit of time and investment. We can transition from this information rich data that has all the imediate information into an actual comprehensive digital twin that not only provides a quality data, which as you can see all the manual information, but also it can empower them with insightful operations and decision making, giving them a real time on site.

      And that's when we started leveraging Autodesk Tandem. So far we did it on three, four projects and some of the most prestigious schools in New England in the country. But this, what started the collaboration between Endicott college and the Autodesk Tandem team.

      RICK GAGNON: Yeah, this innovative technology has been-- digital twin has been so useful for my team. And we use it to compliment our DMS system. The cold data, the O&Ms Are embedded into the 3D models. We're able to retrieve them right on site to see what's going on.

      We have the IoT sensors around campus that allow us to monitor the buildings operation, ensure it's operating efficiently as designed. The digital twin has allowed us to operate the facility, most effectively from my perspective, which has been phenomenal.

      KARINA CARDENES: It's great to see the growth of the campus and how Windover and Endicott leveraged Autodesk software to deliver some really cool buildings, and in the process move up in their digital transformation journey. I've worked for builders, and in BIM roles, as well as implemented digital twins for owners. And all of them have these great plan rooms, some more dusty than others, similar to the video Amr showed earlier. But it highlights the challenge of inaccessible data unless you're in that room.

      A study from IFMA, the International Facilities Management Association, surveyed a broad range of owner operators and 85% struggle with fragmented data and data quality issues. I really like this quote from that same customer story where Amr, you said, "After all the time and effort already spent coordinating models, a digital twin deliverable became a no-brainer." The outcomes AEC cares about, improving collaboration, reducing defects at handover, increasing insights through data, stakeholder buy-in, all aligns with owner outcomes.

      So what we're seeing in the Windover, Endicott partnership are shared values that make digital twins, as you said, Amr, a no-brainer. So Autodesk Tandem is working to make digital twins broadly accessible to the AEC community based on open data and solutions that make creating a digital twin available to everyone. So just to baseline, what is a digital twin? A digital twin is a digital replica of a built asset that puts all the information about the physical asset at a user's fingertips.

      Bidirectional connections between the physical and digital enable the twin to possess the operational and behavioral awareness necessary to simulate, predict and inform decisions based on real world as-built conditions. Digital twins provide an opportunity to transform the built asset life cycle. We can effect this transformation by tracking a digital thread of normalized data that links organizations, workflows and systems with an end to end digital process spanning capital planning, architecture, engineering, construction, and facility operations.

      So when the Adidas Tandem team got started on Tandem, Verdantix Consulting Firm, proposed this maturity model for digital twins, which comprises of these five levels. First, the descriptive twin provides a foundation of normalized data for a facility's assets, spaces and systems. Leveraging as-built design and construction data creates a digital replica of the facility in a normalized representation curated for operations.

      And then taking a step up. Informative twins augment that descriptive twin with operational and sensor data, both normalizing the data and delivering real time and historical insights. Next is the predictive twins, which introduces analytics to provide early fault detection and predictive insights for optimizing building operations. And then comprehensive twins add simulation to perform those what-if scenarios. How might the upgrade of the system affect building performance or the reconfiguration of the space effect occupant utilization?

      And then we have the autonomous twins leveraging AI models to act on behalf of occupants and/or self tune the facility. It's important to note that it's not necessarily a linear progression. However, it is important to establish those normalized data standards at the descriptive and informative stages in order to create a foundation for future stages. The only way to reap the benefits of the later stages is by having normalized asset and operational data across the portfolio.

      So Autodesk Tandem's data model maps out all assets, spaces and systems in a facility showing their relationships. This helps answer questions like, if this room is too hot or cold, what components are involved, or who will be affected if this component is offline for maintenance. It also connects to IT and OT systems linking the physical and digital worlds through streams and events. And then in the future it will define behaviors using decision trees to take actions or send alerts like creating a work order, if a vibration sensor reports data outside of a set limit.

      Autodesk Tandem has two different experiences. So the twin building, which is Amr's team, Windover Construction, provides a repeatable workflow for building a digital twin by harnessing BIM to create and maintain the digital twin, ensuring data completeness and accuracy and accelerating operational readiness. Insightful operations for Endicott, Rick's team, puts accurate data into the hands of the facility operations professional, providing insight to inform decisions, improve efficiency and reduce those operating costs.

      The experience for building operations starts with those curated dashboards that provide a broad view of the data that matters to them. So we recognize that digital twins are always evolving along with their physical counterparts, and these experiences are designed to support both business and the building's evolution.

      So to touch on Tandem's roadmap, Autodesk Tandem connect, which is currently in beta, is an integration platform that can be used to establish bidirectional connections to both enterprise systems for maintenance, space, and financial management, along with building management, IoT and other control systems. Tandem Connect enables anyone to connect systems, integrate data and automate workflows.

      If we think back to the Verdantix maturity model, the Tandem journey also continues, moving up from the descriptive and informative capabilities to predictive where we are now in the research process to build Tandem insights. Tandem insight will harness your data to optimize your building's workspace and business outcomes. Now I'm going to hand back to Amr to talk about their Tandem implementation at Endicott College.

      AMR RAAFAT: So as we have seen throughout the life cycle of the project, we've been leveraging 4D planning, virtual reality, mixed reality, BIM [INAUDIBLE] coordination. And that's all starts with the Revit model, with the BIM data. And sometimes we use Revit, Autodesk, AutoCAD MEB to get all the [INAUDIBLE] information which trade partners sometimes model. And then we fully coordinate that in Navisworks Manage, and we use, of course, it's a standard for us to do laser scans during construction so we can compare the on-site progress with the design model always.

      So we don't only rely on design models for BIM MEB spatial coordination, we also leverage laser scans through intervals to compare what's built versus what's coming. And that helps us reach a very accurate data at the end and know the whole purpose of all this is no-- to have no surprises on site. To mitigate risk and make sure that everything will fit on site.

      So as you see here, this life cycle ecosystem is all compatible and it goes to the Tandem model at the end, as we mentioned earlier, about putting this in an ecosystem that can go and feed the smart operations of the campus. And then this doesn't only stop at where Rick and his team leverages the digital twin model for their daily operations. It also we found it very useful to inform the future designs.

      You can't really control or change something if you can't see it. And those live digital twin data that we collect every day with historical data can really empower future design teams and architects to design the next dorm in the most efficient ways possible, to know where students or where folks leverage a certain space and other. So it can help inform more efficient, humane, more environmentally friendly, sustainable buildings as we leverage these digital twin models for future planning on the Endicott College smart campus.

      One of the-- we talked now about the digital twin we've been building together at Endicott College that Windover [INAUDIBLE] worked on. What we did is that we actually took the fully coordinated model. As you see here, we have all what they call cold data. All the O&M manual information in an easy to use one, a web based platform that has geometrical data into it.

      The power of this digital twin model that you can connect things-- you can't draw catalogs. And we used to have this big book that we deliver, and we still deliver it. But accompanied with that, we have this geometrically 3D data that's easy to use for the facility manager to use from anywhere at their fingertips to have information about any room equipment. And the nice thing about this, it's a living document.

      The Rick's team, the facility management team can go at any time if they replace any unit or any component. Doesn't have to be even MEB. We have things and other architectural components here. They can go block the new data in five years from now as they replace the air handling unit, for example, they can go plug in the new data and new catalogs. It has a comprehensive information on manual information, 24 hour contact, installation date, manufacturer. Everything you need about this, lights, about this MEB elements.

      And then we have also the hot data, which is a real time feed of what's happening on site with IoT sensors to empower a Rick's team.

      RICK GAGNON: Yeah, Amr is right on here. I mean those-- the cold data and hot data has been huge for us. As I mentioned, being able to retrieve those models right on site and see what's going on and being able to monitor occupancy sensors, humidity, temperature control, all these things that help augment our BMS system. It's been terrific.

      AMR RAAFAT: As Rick mentioned, our focus, the first thing we did when we started building the digital twin and connecting the IoT sensors, we had a brainstorming meeting and we wanted, OK, we have a existing BMS system. We want to make sure that the new technology with digital twin IoT sensor complement and add the accumulated knowledge and data we have already from the BMS system. It can complement it and add value to it.

      So we focused on that as we want to collect so that we don't necessarily get from the BMS system. So we have a more full integration, full information rich data and focus our efforts on that. As you see in here, the 3D model visually connecting for the Empower facility manager with information CO2 occupancy, and it's non-invasive. This occupancy data, you can get information about occupancy, CO2, humidity, all this information. Rich data is very useful for operations that you check every day. That's why we call it hard data.

      As you see here, the interface has been easy. It's web based can be accessed from anywhere and that's the value the digital twin can empower. And we also, linking that into the 360, as we mentioned earlier, it's a standard for us to deliver [INAUDIBLE] we have for every building from in-wall scans to finishes to completion, 360 tours. We are adding with the-- the nice thing about the ecosystem within the Tandem or within the digital twin platform here is that allows you to add all this handover data.

      So we are connecting the 360 as built of this site. And here is a key potential here for digital twins to take it over more than even empowering facility managers. We are looking into leveraging this to empower the local community as well. And first day at school, you can have all the kids and all the students can get to know in first day of school. You don't necessarily know their classroom, where it's going to be.

      We want to, with using digital twins, our plan is to embed this into the community. So the whole community can leverage digital twin to increase efficiencies, guide students, and empower the whole community to leverage this beautiful spaces that's interconnected. So there is a lot of potential for digital twins to go even beyond. First, we thought this is beyond the BIM coordination. And now we're talking beyond even facility management empowerment. It's for the whole community.

      So this is still the nice thing about the Tandem environment is evolving. So we are-- I love that we adding more into it and that Autodesk is adding more into this so we can have a living document that's in handover for the future. And this all empowerment comes from the very early beginning, using BIM data into building the building itself and making sure we're building the most efficient-- in the most efficient ways possible.

      RICK GAGNON: Campus technology and the innovative solutions of digital twin are incredibly useful for my team. We've used it to complement our existing system. We use the cold data, the O&Ms that are embedded into the 3D models to retrieve the information right on site. The IoT sensors, the hot data, allow us to monitor the building's operation to ensure it's operating at its most efficient design-- as designed. Excuse me. The digital twin has allowed us to operate the facility most effectively.

      AMR RAAFAT: As Rick mentioned, our-- there's a lot of things we are working on at Endicott College. And one of the things we really are looking to and are leveraging is connecting the Johnson Controls as a system into Tandem, which will really pave the way to a full ecosystem integration within the Tandem interface. That has a great advantage about-- what's really unique here is a geometrical data. It's easy to understand. You can navigate from each floor and see actual compelling data with IoT sensors, along with connecting to the existing systems through Autodesk Connect.

      That's where you have a full ecosystem to empower operations. As we see here, the digital twins, the way we envision is beyond the 3D models. It takes a lot of data. Collecting the data is something, but leveraging the data is really what's empower facility managers and builders.

      What makes a digital twin is really all the data we collected. The reality capture of data and the model. As built BIM, the IoT sensors, [INAUDIBLE] manual information, the BIM coordination process. If we cover all these different components throughout the life cycle of the project, it makes it much easier for teams to implement digital twin methodologies after that. It's just a matter of embedding it rather than building it from scratch.

      So our advice today for folks and for our peers is that we want to share with them to begin with the end in mind, to begin from day one on the project before you would even doing recon to start collecting all these BIM data and utilize it to build better, safer and the most efficient ways, as well as to empower that digital twin journey that really will be very useful for facility managers for years to come. That's one of the ways we can reach-- one of the ways. I'm not saying that this is going to solve all the sustainability issues about building a very efficient buildings, but it's one step towards sustainable buildings.

      Because if we can see all this data within the digital twin platform, we can act on it. If there is a unit that's not working as efficient as possible in the unit, we can work on fixing it and that saves energy and efficiencies on site. It's really about real time facility monitoring, data interoperability, and it's really beyond construction.

      KARINA CARDENES: I'd just like to add, my biggest takeaway from this case study is really that partnership, the progression of the digital transformation journey, building the foundation of BIM, aligning on the data that Rick's team really cares about when they start operating the building. And then of course, not being afraid to explore those informative twin use cases and be able to visualize those hot and cold data. So this is really builder and owner together in partnership to drive Tandem adoption.

      And Rick, great champions for digital transformation and Tandem adoption. But there's of course, a whole project team from Windover and Endicott College that have supported these efforts. So shout out to them as well.

      RICK GAGNON: Yeah, [INAUDIBLE] is really the future here at Endicott as well. It helps us maintain our facility easier with more concrete information. With the hot data, the cold data. We're planning to continue to leverage more of this technology to help us drive the industry forward and complement our existing systems.

      AMR RAAFAT: We are excited that we shared with you today all the different technologies and innovative solutions have been utilized over the years at the Endicott college campus to build a smart campus. And one of the things we want to highlight is that for years we've been an early implementer of virtual reality. We built 4D animations to communicate with the community how we're going to build and tell a story of how we're going to build it, so we can plan smart and plan safely all the different components.

      With an occupied campus like this, with all the students, safety is our first priority. And one of the things we can leverage technology is to empower that through early planning of the different logistics, fence lines. And 4D can tell you with our 4D planning, can tell you how the site will look at each month.

      And then we started virtual reality in an immersive experience, empower designers to design those spaces in the most better materials because you can select all the materials within a VR. And then we took it. We thought, this is the best thing that could happen. VR, and then we started implementing mixed reality where we can overlay the existing 3D models over on site in an experience was the HoloLens 2 and all this different mixed reality components that make it to a quarter of an inch accuracy for on site coordination.

      Then we thought, that's amazing. How it can get even better? Then we started utilizing laser scans and drone surveys, more than an eye in the sky, collecting live data with ground control points that's very accurate to do, QEQC overlays to make sure what we're building on site is exactly what's designed and preserve the design intent.

      And then we started using digital twins. Investing in all this data that accumulated throughout the building process to empower facility managers. And now we're using AI as well. So this natural accumulation of construction technology progress is what really empowered to build the smart campus. And that's what we like to share today.

      It's not only also about the technology, it's about the great people partnership and the trust between a visionary school and an innovative construction company in collaboration with the technology developer, as Autodesk. That's how we can push our industry forward and build it better in the most efficient ways and the most sustainable ways. Thank you so much.