University of Toronto · Civil & Mineral Engineering
A research centre in the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering at the University of Toronto, working on building digital twins and supporting wider adoption of digitized construction.
IBDT partners with campus operations and external collaborators to turn building data, models, and workflows into tools for planning and day-to-day decisions—grounded in the University of Toronto’s Civil & Mineral Engineering research community.
Bridge the data gaps and provide intelligent analytics to support creating and examining futures.
We advance building digital twins through three connected themes, six research programmes, and campus pilots with operational and public-sector partners.
Provincial, regional, and University of Toronto operational partners on IBDT research and pilots.
Programmes and pilots, the data portal, and a short primer on digital twins.
People
Director, researchers, and staff on IBDT projects.
Director, IBDT
Tamer El-Diraby is Professor in the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering at the University of Toronto. He works on digitizing construction and asset management practices to capture and mobilize knowledge through modeling, visualization, analytics, and virtualization.
Coordinator, IBDT
Postdoctoral fellow working on construction analytics and digital twinning of facilities to enable efficient and informed decision making.
Postdoctoral Fellow, IBDT
Expert on data science and machine learning (LLM-based tools). He also works on development, deployment, and integration of DTs in enterprise IT systems.
PhD Candidate, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
Use of agentic AI in DTs, with particular interest in whole-building life-cycle assessment.
