2020-11-02 | Engineering News-Record: Hollywood Park, a nearly 300-acre sports and entertainment district in Inglewood, Calif., being developed by Los Angeles Rams owner and chairman Stan Kroenke, now has a digital twin of its biggest venue, the $5.5-billion SoFi Stadium. As home of both the Rams and the Chargers, it's the first NFL stadium that has a digital twin being used for operations, maintenance and building efficiency.
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This is a really interesting way to do building management. I find it really interesting as well that it wasn’t necessarily headed up buy an engineer or construction firm but rather someone who primarily worked in guest experience and digital apps. This kind of user interface experience and large scale logistical analysis is something that I can see people in our industry want to get into. For a space as advanced and multifaceted as So-Fi Stadium is and while be when it begins operating at full capacity at some point it makes perfect sense that they decided to try and take the opperations management to the digital world. Creating an environment that someone can check up on millions of different aspects of the stadium from a deck rather than having to physically go around and look for just screams 21st century solution for a 21st century problem. I wonder to see where this kind of digital space creation and management goes in the future as the world develops.
I agree with Mattox that this is an incredibly unique way to manage such a massive building. The idea of digitally cloning a physical building with control over things such as HVAC and lighting to accurately predict the real-time needs of the stadium when it is able to have attendees in the seats. Perhaps the most interesting thing about this whole project is that it was headed by a man that primarily works on digital applications and guest experiences for Disney. This is one of the perfect examples of how science and art can seamlessly blend together with the help of modern-day technology. It would be interesting to see what the end-user side of this digital twin of the stadium, how the scenarios are conceived, and what the information that this digital model is able to produce for facilities management. Finally, I am curious to see if this is a tactic that is commonly used for managing such large buildings or stadiums, or if this is a fairly new concept to aid in facilities management.
This is really cool! It is one of the uses of technology that feels appropriately useful and very helpful. I love this idea behind the digital twin where having that digital version of such a large venue, building, and space is brilliant when it comes to how they are using it. Yeah, a digital model is only as useful as creating the building in question and then for show but they are putting in real time intelligence to work on HVAC systems, lighting abilities, and work on real time needs as well as potential needs during which a live event would be occurring. I can only imagine that this tool is proving extremely useful especially as I am sure they can work towards accounting an expected cost of utilizing the building in full capacity. Let alone the invaluable tool for maintenance and other criteria diagnostics. I would love to see this tool in action.
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