Where heritage meets innovation: protecting irreplaceable national treasures through digital twin technology

How do you safeguard centuries of irreplaceable historical documents while achieving world-class building performance and sustainability? Adam Ward, Co-Founder of Twinview, reveals how Archives New Zealand is setting a global benchmark by integrating digital twin technology to protect national heritage while delivering cutting-edge operational excellence.

This groundbreaking case study demonstrates how digital twins can transcend traditional asset management, delivering real-time operational insights, environmental monitoring, and performance optimisation for one of the nation's most critical infrastructure projects.

What you'll discover:

Heritage protection innovation: Learn how digital twin technology enables precise environmental monitoring and control to protect irreplaceable archival materials, ensuring optimal preservation conditions across the facility.

Beyond asset management: Explore how Archives New Zealand's digital twin delivers comprehensive real-time operational insights that go far beyond conventional building management systems.

Sustainability at scale: Understand the practical approaches used to achieve energy efficiency and resilience while maintaining the stringent environmental controls required for document preservation.

Real-world implementation: Gain practical lessons from the technical approaches, challenges, and solutions encountered during the development and deployment of this critical national infrastructure digital twin.

National infrastructure excellence

See how digital twins are being applied to ensure long-term preservation and performance of critical cultural infrastructure, balancing the competing demands of heritage protection, user experience, energy efficiency, and operational resilience.

Practical Lessons for Your Projects

Whether you're working with heritage buildings, critical infrastructure, or performance-sensitive environments, this session provides actionable insights from a project where failure is not an option—the stakes are New Zealand's irreplaceable historical record.

Perfect for heritage professionals, facilities managers, digital twin practitioners, sustainability officers, critical infrastructure operators, building performance specialists, and anyone managing environments with stringent preservation requirements.

About the speaker

Adam Ward is Co-Founder of Twinview, with extensive experience implementing digital twin solutions for critical infrastructure and performance-sensitive environments. His work on the Archives New Zealand project demonstrates how advanced digital twin technology can meet the exacting requirements of heritage preservation while achieving operational excellence.

This is a FREE online event for Digital Twin Hub community members.

Join 120+ professionals for this 30-minute case study, including 15 minutes of detailed insights from a world-leading heritage preservation digital twin project, followed by interactive Q&A.

Can't attend live? All Gemini Call sessions are recorded and available to the community for continued learning.

Learn from a global benchmark

Discover how digital twin technology is protecting national heritage while setting new standards for smart, sustainable building performance in mission-critical environments.

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