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Case Study

A digital twin that paid for itself in energy.

April 2026 · Smart Cities & Infrastructure
Overview

A mixed-use development operator had building management data across twelve assets and no way to act on it. We built a digital twin that cut energy consumption 18% in the first year.

18%
Energy consumption reduction
12
Assets modelled
11 months
Payback period
01 · Context

The situation on arrival.

Twelve mixed-use assets with modern BMS installations, each optimised locally and none optimised against each other.

Energy was the second-largest operating cost line and was managed reactively.

02 · Approach

How we structured the work.

We modelled the portfolio as a single system rather than twelve buildings, which immediately surfaced load-shifting opportunities invisible at the individual asset level.

We validated every recommendation against a live control group before portfolio-wide rollout.

Twelve buildings optimised individually is not a portfolio. It's twelve local maxima.
03 · What we built

Systems now in production.

  • A portfolio-level digital twin integrating twelve BMS feeds.
  • An anomaly detection layer flagging equipment operating outside expected envelopes.
  • A load-shifting recommendation engine.
  • An asset-health analytics dashboard for the facilities team.
04 · Outcome

What changed for the client.

18% reduction in portfolio energy consumption in year one, with an eleven-month payback on the programme cost.

Now extending to a further six assets.

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