The Victorian Government is positioning the state as a leader in planning and digital innovation, announcing a record $35.2 million to deliver Digital Twin Victoria - a data-based digital replica of our state. 

Digital Twin Victoria is intended to transform planning and unlock efficiencies from the start to finish of infrastructure projects, helping to drive our state’s economic recovery. 

Digital twins bring data and information together to create digital representations of the real world, whether that be bricks and mortar, utilities infrastructure, farmland, or cities. 

Planners, engineers, and builders will be able to use Digital Twin Victoria to model different project scenarios, test the feasibility of proposals, troubleshoot potential issues, and share complex information across sectors and workplaces more easily. 

This week’s funding announcement follows the appointment of CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, as the Government’s partner to develop the online platform which will host Victoria’s digital twin. 

Digital Twin Victoria builds on a pilot project that created a digital twin for Australia’s largest urban renewal project, Fishermans Bend. 

The platform is expected to be widely accessible by late 2021. 

Using digital models improves scheduling, reduces costly on-site delays, improves scheduling and in turn increases the efficiency and the cost of the construction process. 

MBV is currently exploring how our members can get involved in this exciting project.