Abstract Manager

This presentation will demonstrate how carbon calculations for transportation projects can be simplified and visualized via a digital twin.   The need for rapid, significant progress to a sustainable future is greatly facilitated by visualizing it in a digital twin to explore alternatives for better designs much earlier in the design process. Bentleys’ Carbon Analysis capabilities allow organizations to assess and reduce carbon impacts for more sustainable infrastructure. It enables transparency into carbon computations with continuous calculations during the design process allowing for accurate carbon reports to be generated much earlier in the project life cycle as well as reducing the feedback loop to the design team from weeks to days. Exposing this information graphically in a digital twin provides the ability to visualize the carbon footprint without having to sift through complex reports. This exposes it to a much larger team to encourage and facilitate quicker reporting.

From a technical perspective, the digital twin allows one to group common elements to calculate missing details on the carbon footprint and then creates a bill of materials. This can be sent to a 3^rd party life cycle assessment tool where one can adjust material selections based on raw material providers and project specifics. This allows one to link the embodied carbon footprint directly to your design and material choices and see those impacts during different phases of the project. It gets rendered as a 3D heat map so you can see the carbon intensive areas in the model.