Los Angeles’ Better Buildings Challenge (LABBC), a community of building owners representing 150 million square feet of commercial real estate space committed to ‘going green.’ has partnered with urban digital twin pioneer Cityzenith. The partners will implement the company’s SmartWorld Digital Twin product in LA’s Bunker Hill area to explore the use of this advanced technology to enable owners of buildings of any size, anywhere, to simulate their optimum financial paths to net zero emissions.
Urban Digital Twins are virtual replicas of real buildings, infrastructure, networks, etc. in cities connected to the data in and around them. They are used to simulate and improve operational behavior in cities, including traffic, crowd movement and emissions reduction.
Los Angeles now joins many other major U.S. cities in Cityzenith’s “Clean Cities–Clean Future” initiative, including New York, Phoenix and Las Vegas.
“We look forward to working with Cityzenith to demonstrate how its Urban Digital Twin technology can support the shift to net zero in this important area of L.A., through simulating different potential scenarios and recommending the optimal combination of projects and financial strategies to make the whole thing work,” LABBC Director David Hodgins said. “The wider potential for the rest of L.A., the state of California and nationally and globally, is enormous.”
