Climate Risk Intelligence for Infrastructure Digital Twins™
Future-proofing Assets Today for Tomorrow’s Climate Extremes™
Climate Risk Intelligence Solutions
ClimaTwin® empowers infrastructure stakeholders
to mitigate climate risks and assess adaptation actions
across the total asset lifecycle
Aggregate
Federate infrastructure datasets
with disparate climate models
Visualize
Simulate designs and identify vulnerabilities to weather variables
Analyze
Project asset performance under
acute and chronic climate hazards
Public & Private Asset Vulnerabilities to Extreme Weather
Future asset interruption, damage, destruction,
and other loss as a result of exposure to climate hazards
Airports
Hazards: hurricanes, storms, typhoons, sea-level rise, tidal flooding, heat
Risks: airplane service interruption from only tenths of an inch of water
Rail
Hazards: riverine and pluvial flooding, hurricanes, storms, typhoons
Risks: train service interruption and disruption to signal assets
Roads
Hazards: riverine and pluvial flooding, hurricanes, storms, typhoons
Risks: 30% speed limitations and increased travel time in flooded cities
Seaports
Hazards: hurricanes, storms, typhoons, sea-level rise, tidal flooding
Risks: destruction of a large percentage of assets and cargo
Wireless Infrastructure
Hazards: hurricanes, storms, typhoons, tornadoes and other wind
Risks: service degradation or interruption due to downed cell towers
Thermonuclear Power Plants
Hazards: hurricanes, storms, typhoons, sea-level rise, tidal flooding
Risks: service interruption and cooling risk during water shortage
Wind Power Plants
Hazards: hurricanes, storms, typhoons, riverine and pluvial flooding
Risks: service interruption and component damage from thunderstorms
Solar Power Plants
Hazards: heat (air and water), riverine and pluvial flooding
Risks: reduction in efficiency, 0.1–0.5% loss per 2°F increase
Hydroelectric Plants
Hazards: riverine and pluvial flooding, drought
Risks: service interruption due to extreme precipitation or none
Transmission Lines
Hazards: hurricanes, storms, typhoons, wildfire
Risks: increased load due to a/c use and reduced grid efficiency
Substations
Hazards: wildfire, sea-level rise, tidal flooding, riverine and pluvial flooding
Risks: reduced grid efficiency and damage or destruction from fire
Wastewater Treatment Systems
Hazards: hurricanes, storms, typhoons, sea-level rise, tidal flooding
Risks: release of billions of gallons of sewage, contaminating freshwater
Challenges Connecting Infrastructure and Climate Data
Infrastructure data are siloed in proprietary repositories.
Climate data are locked in scientific formats,
limited by coarse resolution and poor parametrization.
By connecting complex climate models and infrastructure digital twins, ClimaTwin® enables stakeholders to aggregate, visualize, and analyze disparate datasets, revealing site-specific insights at a hyper-local scale.
Adaptation Actions
Generate Significant Returns
Benefits to owner-operators of near-term positive returns and lifetime cost-avoidance by mitigating climate risks to systems, services, and societies
5-10x ROI
Return on investment over
the cost of adaptation investment
Save Lives
Prevent or reduce damages
from today’s climate hazards
$50-$100 B
1-2% of the current $5 trillion
global infrastructure spend per year
Climate Change
Demands New Requirements
Future climate uncertainty demands change
to the performance requirements of infrastructure assets
Economy
Life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA)
in support of investment decisions
Durability
Resistance to performance
degradation during full-service life
Safety
Judgment of risk tolerances
for assets, systems, and processes
Serviceability
State of assets, systems, and components
under normal operations
Constructability
Application of construction knowledge
during pre-construction phases
Sustainability
As Featured In
Adapting infrastructure to rising climate risks will require greater transparency, changes to design, and significantly greater funding.
– McKinsey Global Institute
By 2021, 50% of large industrial firms will use digital twins, resulting in a 10% improvement in effectiveness.
– Gartner
Forecast 26.4% compound annual growth in the use of digital twins for the construction industry and built environment through 2026
– Frost & Sullivan
Climate-influenced weather is the key driver of the $268B global damage from 2020 natural disasters… and costs continue to rise.
– Aon plc