K&A Wins Digital Twin Project of the Year at Construction Technology Awards 2023

Khatib & Alami (K&A) has won the Digital Twin Project of the Year Award at the Construction Technology Awards 2023 for its Digital Twin Reality Model project in Oman.

Our large-scale digital twin project involved capturing and modeling 250 km2 of challenging topography in Muscat, within a very tight timeframe, to improve national security and improve preparedness for climate-related disasters. Project Manager, Rouba Zantout, said: “We created a highly accurate and detailed 3D model of the terrain by merging two technologies, Esri’s ArcGIS and Bentley Systems’ ContextCapture, which was critical for developing a geoenabled reality model and the project’s overall success. With unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), we succeeded to capture 330,000 images and construct a 3D reality model of the area, which included 43,000 fully textured buildings, in just 90 days.” The Construction Technology Awards, hosted by Ventures Connect, were part of the Construction Technology ConFex and Property Technology ConFEX, where our experts also moderated panels, led tracks, and provided expertise in panel discussions. “We are thrilled to have won this accolade for such an amazing effort. After being recognized in Reality Modeling at Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure, this is the project’s second triumph.”