BSI Flex 260: v1.0 2022-01

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What is BSI Flex 260: v1.0 2022-01 about?

This BSI Flex establishes the key terms, concepts, and principles related to creating, managing and using digital twins for the built environment. BSI Flex 260: v1.0 2022-01 is the first iteration of this flexible standard and as such is a living document aiming to capture current best practice in a dynamic area.

Who is BSI Flex 260: v1.0 2022-01 for?

• Organizations creating, managing and using digital twins of assets, systems, processes and systems of systems that constitute the built environment. Depending on the use case, digital twins might be used by regulators, policy makers, asset managers, portfolio managers, process modellers, analysts, designers, engineers, and cyber security professionals
• Commercial vendors delivering digital solutions to support all phases of the built environment lifecycle

What does BSI Flex 260: v1.0 2022-01 cover?

It applies to digital twins across the life cycle or existence and interaction with the built environment of:

• Assets, including both economic and social infrastructure, such as: telecoms signal boxes, sewer systems and schools
• Systems, including socio technical systems such as: highways, energy networks, security and safety systems, control systems, and the prison system. And where systems can form a component of a system of systems.
• Process use cases and interfaces, such as: resilience planning, extreme event recovery, governance, assurance and preventative maintenance, as well as associated decision-making

It covers all applications of digital twins within the built environment and the interfaces with the natural environment. It will also cover discrete and connected digital twins, the principles of connecting digital twins but not the practice and technology of doing so.

It covers the need for security mindedness and personal data protection but does not cover the processes required to secure digital twins and manage personal data.

NOTE: BSI Flex 260: v1.0 2022-01 does not cover the selection of assets, systems and processes to be represented by digital twins.

Digital twins enable better insight and decisions in planning, delivery and whole-life management of assets. In the built environment, they can drive up commercial competitiveness and productivity, and can improve quality of life and public wellbeing. Specifically, BSI Flex 260: v1.0 2022-01 can help organizations to:

• Establish competence in data driven decision making in the built environment
• Accelerate innovation through the adoption of a common language and the alignment of stakeholder expectations
• Align their digital twin development to mitigate frictions when exchanging information between digital twins
• Establish new services to support the creation, management and use of digital twins
• Develop expertise in the use of digital twins
• Enter new markets
• Improve efficiency

BSI Flex 260: v1.0 2022-01 contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goal 9 on industry, innovation and infrastructure, Goal 11 on sustainable cities and communities and Goal 13 on climate action.

BSI Flex documents are a new type of standard, created where there is a need to rapidly iterate and update content as best practice emerges. BSI Flex Standards are developed using repeated cycles of iteration.