We build a digital twin of your building from BIM and laser scans, put its sensors on the model and link every asset to its maintenance record. Your facilities team runs the building from one live model, not a shelf of O&M binders.
A digital twin is a live model of a building that joins its BIM model to sensor data and maintenance records. AIM United builds twins from BIM and laser scans, connects the sensors and links each asset to its work orders, so your facilities team runs the building from one model. We deliver digital twins in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the GCC, and hold ISO 41001 for facility management.
The model took years to build. It is archived the day the keys change hands, and operations start again from spreadsheets, a BMS few people can read and O&M manuals nobody searches.
We find out a chiller is struggling when a ward calls to say it's hot.Director of Facilities, hospital
Handover data came as PDFs. Half the asset tags don't match what's on site.Asset manager, developer-owner
The BMS, the CAFM system and the model each hold part of the truth. None of them talk.FM contract lead, campus
I can't tell the board what each floor costs to run, or when it sits empty.Head of real estate, portfolio
Concerns owners and facilities teams commonly raise, paraphrased. Roles are shown by type, not by name.
What bad data cost the global construction industry in 2020. 30% of respondents said more than half of their project data is bad.Source: Autodesk and FMI, Harnessing the Data Advantage in Construction, 2021
New building: we start from the design model and the contractor's as-built updates. Existing building: we laser-scan it and model what is really there. Every room, riser and asset gets an ID the rest of the twin can hang data on.
Watch the scan resolve into the model as you scroll.
Nine sensor types, each mapped to the room or asset it measures. Pick one to light it on the building; tap a round point to read that room.
Drag the clock or press play. Lights follow people, occupancy moves floor by floor, and the energy curve draws itself.
Dashed line: baseline week
When a reading leaves its range, the twin knows which asset serves that room, who maintains it and what was done last time. The work order writes itself.
Alarms, faults and predictions land in one register, tied to the room and asset. Pick one to fly to it.
Every report is drawn from the same twin data your team sees live. Pick one to preview it.
CO₂ > 1,000 ppm for 15 minAny meeting room → notify the FM supervisorLeak sensor = wetP1 issue → SMS the plumber on shiftCHW ΔT < 8 °C for 1 h at the ETSEnergy engineer; district cooling penalty riskRoom over limit for 10 minNotify the space managerSensor silent for 2 hP4 issue to the BMS contractor4 of 5 rules on · 14 fired this week
At this rate it passes the 4.5 mm/s alert limit in about 19 days. The twin raises a planned bearing check now, not a breakdown later.
Limit per ISO 10816 for this pump class
Read-only by default. The twin writes only issues and work orders to your CAFM.
An as-built model of the building as it stands, with spaces and assets tagged. From your design model, or from a laser scan if there is no model.
We map BMS points, meters and IoT sensors to the rooms and assets they measure, then stream them into the twin: temperature, CO₂, occupancy, sub-meters, leak, chilled water, vibration, doors and lifts. Where there is a gap, we specify wireless sensors.
Every asset linked to its model element, O&M document, warranty and maintenance history. Planned and reactive work in one place.
Alarms, faults and predictions become issues on the room and asset they belong to, with a priority, an SLA timer and an assignee. Each one opens a work order in your CAFM and closes with the technician's note and photo.
Energy, comfort, occupancy and work-order views for the facilities team, and monthly reports for the board, drawn from the same data as the model.
Structured asset data at handover, checked before it reaches you. We validate the contractor's COBie against the model, or build it from the model.
Buildings taken from LOD 400 to LOD 500 as-built at Six Flags Qiddiya
Six Flags QiddiyaLucid Motors Phase 2 models linked to cost data in Power BI, with LOD 500 as-builts
Lucid MotorsAIM United is certified to the international standard for facility management
CertifiedSystems we join into one twin: BMS, meters, CAFM and access control
Scopeof UK respondents had worked on a project using a digital twin in the past year, while 71% use BIM. Twins are still early, so there is room to lead.
Source: NBS Digital Construction Survey, 2021 (UK data)of construction respondents say more than half of their project data is bad. A twin only works if the asset data under it is checked.
Source: Autodesk and FMI, 2021Laser scan, BIM, O&M manuals, BMS point lists and a walk of the plant rooms.
An as-built twin with spaces and assets tagged, and COBie checked against it.
Sensor mapping, alarm rules and work orders raised from the model without re-keying.
Dashboards and CAFM links your facilities team uses from week one, with training on site.
Energy baselines, rule tuning, and more buildings added to the same portfolio view.
A model of your building linked to live data from it. The geometry comes from BIM or a laser scan. Sensors, meters and the BMS feed readings onto the rooms and assets they measure, and maintenance records sit on each asset. The model shows how the building is running now, not only how it was designed.
A BIM model describes the building at one point in time. A twin keeps updating: it adds live sensor data, asset and maintenance records, and rules that act on them. Most twins start from the BIM model. We keep the geometry light enough to run in a browser.
Yes. We laser-scan the building, model what is actually there, and tag spaces and assets as we go. This is common for hospitals, campuses and older towers, where the drawings no longer match the site.
COBie is a non-proprietary format, usually a spreadsheet, for handing over asset data: floors, spaces, types, components and maintenance tasks. If your contract asks for it, we check the contractor's COBie against the model. If it doesn't, we build it anyway, because the twin needs the same data.
Most building systems speak BACnet, Modbus or MQTT, or offer an API. New wireless sensors usually run on LoRaWAN. We connect through those, read-only by default, map each point to its room and asset, and watch each sensor's battery and last reading. We survey your existing points first, so you only add sensors where there is a real gap.
A rule you set, such as CO₂ above 1,000 ppm for 15 minutes, raises an issue on that room and its asset. It carries a priority, an SLA timer and an assignee, and opens a work order in your CAFM. The technician closes it with a note and a photo, and the asset's history updates in the twin.
Monthly FM performance, energy and carbon, space utilisation, PPM compliance, an SLA and issue summary, and the COBie asset register. They are scheduled monthly and emailed as PDF in English, Arabic or both, and the same figures are live in the dashboard. A Power BI feed is optional.
With a pilot: one building, or a few floors of a large one. Timing depends on whether a usable model exists and how many systems we connect, so we fix it after a short survey. Send us the building type, size and what you have today, and we will scope it.
Send us the building type, its size and what you have today: a model, scans, a BMS. We'll tell you what a pilot twin would cover.