Building Smarter: Digital Twin for Complex Infrastructure Delivery
- Team Uniquon
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How a Global Contractor Brought Real-Time Intelligence to Multi-Billion Euro Construction Projects

Faced with fragmented communication, operational blind spots, and mounting schedule risk, a major European infrastructure company turned to Uniquon to introduce a digital twin layer across its most strategic worksites. The result: a living, data-driven replica of its construction sites — bridging BIM, geospatial data, IoT sensors, and site workflows into a unified, predictive control environment.
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The Challenge: Orchestrating complex construction across physical and digital silos
Context - In large-scale infrastructure — bridges, tunnels, metro lines, stations — complexity isn’t just technical, it's operational. Multiple subcontractors, shifting site conditions, regulatory oversight, and evolving design specs create a volatile environment where static planning tools and delayed reporting often fall short.
The client, one of Europe’s largest general contractors, was managing multiple sites simultaneously, each with its own risks and coordination challenges. Delays and cost overruns were being driven not by poor execution — but by poor visibility. They needed a solution that could synchronize the physical and digital dimensions of construction: from reinforced concrete pours to planning simulations, from geotechnical sensor readings to stakeholder reporting.
The Solution: A dynamic digital twin platform built for real-world infrastructure constraints
Uniquon collaborated with the client's engineering, IT, and site operations teams to design and deploy a robust, extensible Digital Twin framework, focused on real-time insights, predictive control, and seamless field integration.
The twin combined multiple technological layers:
Site-accurate 3D models enriched with construction phases, work zones, and logistics plans — sourced from BIM and constantly updated with as-built data
Live IoT feeds from embedded sensors in foundations and structures, capturing vibration, displacement, load, humidity, and soil pressure
GIS overlays aligning spatial topography and regulatory zones with planning constraints
Simulative scheduling modules to test impacts of design variants, equipment delays, or weather conditions before they occur
Interoperability connectors with Primavera P6, Revit, CAD, and internal ERP — enabling real-time data flows and status syncing
The system is hosted in a hybrid cloud environment with offline failover options for areas with poor connectivity. A role-based interface lets executives, engineers, field teams, and public officials access tailored views — from high-level dashboards to sensor-level data layers.