Living Lab Digital Twin: Case Study of the Development of a Research-Oriented Digital Twin in a LEED Platinum Academic Building

ANNSIM Symposium on Simulation for Archtecture and Urban Design (SimAUD 2025)

David Gerber, Niko McGlashan, Simon Breslav, and Azam Khan

May 2025
11 Pages

Creating a living lab in a new academic building, to support diverse types of research projects, presents unique challenges that are rarely documented. Following the case study research method, we present the process and development of the datasets and the software platform created to enable faculty and students at a university to perform scientific studies that follow a living lab methodology. Although the motivation for the living lab project is sustainability, the intent is to have a domain-agnostic platform that can serve a variety of disciplines. The goal of this research is to support the development of theory regarding the continuous improvement of the built environment.