Twinnedit Evolution
As an ever-evolving solution, your needs will not only be met now but in the future too. Here’s where it all started…
Initially, Deeo focused on working in high-precision engineering sectors such as automotive, defence, mass transit vehicles, and medical equipment design and engineering.
In 2016, Deeo added creating digital twin solutions for the built environment to their portfolio of services. Transfer skills and know-how never used before in this sector.
After working on many prestigious BIM (Building Information Modelling) programmes, Deeo then delivered an award-winning regional advisory service called BIMwm that delivered advice, solutions, and training for the whole of the Midlands. We demystified the noise a lot of organisations made about how to adopt BIM and digital transformations for products and portfolios, saving hundreds of thousands of pounds of work organisations didn’t need to do! Through this work, in mid-2018, we were invited to meet the Walsall Housing Group.
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whg are a housing association providing affordable housing across the West Midlands. They have nearly twenty high-rise buildings and wanted to discuss how we could create a solution that would ensure all the lessons learned from previous high-rise building tragedies, such as Grenfell Tower, could be addressed in a digital way using the latest yet affordable processes and technology.
Through 2018, we worked hand in glove with every department of this forward-thinking provider to understand the challenges, issues, and obstacles of delivering safe buildings. After 6 months of evaluation, we created the first iteration of Twinnedit, and by the end of 2019, we had digitally captured, created, collated, and hosted all of their high-rise and high-risk buildings into Twinnedit.
The wants and needs of WHG’s team were typical of all providers of high-quality properties. Deeo’s team opened their eyes to a new digitally connected world where everything should be brought together into a digital world to not only deliver the challenges of the day for any building type but also evolve in capability in the future.
Leading the team within whg and the person that challenged Deeo in the first place, was a highly respected practitioner of Building Safety – Paul Dockerill. Not only was he WHG’s Director of Energy & Programme Management, but Paul’s involvement with building safety covered local, regional, and national groups, with appointments being made to chair WHG’s Building Safety Group and the West Midlands Social Housing Building Safety Group. In 2020, he was also made Chair of the National Housing Federation’s National Building Safety Group and a Fellow of the CIOB.
Before he tragically passed away in late 2022, he had become the Resident Engagement Ambassador on the national Housing Safety and Wellbeing Taskforce, influencing future government policy, and a member of the Inside Housing Resident Engagement Group, another national advisory group.
So as you can appreciate, with Paul and his team’s vision of what the sector needed and Deeo’s experience of how to make it happen, it was a winning combination, and we are proud that Paul’s legacy in Twinnedit—delivering resident and building safety and wellness—will live on!
In parallel with our development of what, as a collective, we thought would be needed to be captured and collated into Twinnedit, the UK Government had instructed an Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, by Dame Judith Hackitt, to understand how a tragedy such as Grenfell Tower could happen.
This damming report concluded many failings across all elements of designing, constructing, managing, maintaining, and modifying buildings. One of the report’s key recommendations was the need for a digital “Golden Thread of Information” to be collated, managed, and securely hosted to bring all of the information about a building together to “arm the end user with information.”
This was everything we had aimed to do in the creation of the Twinnedit solutions and platform.
In 2020, Deeo was asked to present Twinnedit at the home office to the government, as well as a host of other bodies such as HSE, NFCC, and LBC. This was a resounding success, and Deeo was asked to be one of the advisors and early adopters of the biggest reform in building and fire safety—the Building Safety Act 2022. It was a privilege to be asked to advise on best practices for future safety. Deeo also continued to “bake in” all elements the sector and the new Building Safety Regulator would require into Twinnedit, as well as many other added extras!
Even though Deeo launched Twinnedit to the world in January 2020—six weeks before a pandemic!—forward-thinking customers have commissioned and adopted Twinnedit within their organisations.
Across the country, our multi-award-winning solution is enabling the owners and operators of high-rise and complex buildings to manage their residents and building safety.
Everything you need to prove a building’s digital safety case is stored within Twinnedit, and you can even create periodic safety case reports to submit for assessment straight from Twinnedit. Even if your building does not require a safety case report to be published, isn’t this a more proactive way of assuring all stakeholders that you know your facility—inside and out—and have made all endeavours to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all that enter, live, work, or play in it?
We have also added live feeds of information, taken from sensors within a building, to give real-time information about how the building is being used and abused. This will then enable an accurate, planned assessment to reduce the carbon footprint of a building to deliver the Net Zero targets we all wish to meet.
This is why we can honestly say that Twinnedit is a unique, trusted, one-stop partner solution for all those who truly want to ensure industry-leading resident and building safety and wellness.
