Digital Twins

Sterling creates high-fidelity digital twins of infrastructure assets by integrating photogrammetry, laser scanning, and drone-based capture technologies. These digital replicas provide infrastructure owners with comprehensive visual documentation supporting design coordination, construction planning, asset handover, and baseline spatial records for future condition monitoring.

Through our partnership with Trendspek, Sterling delivers 3D photogrammetric models with exceptional visual quality, demonstrated by our Bolte Bridge digital twin where individual bolt serial numbers remain legible within the model. We have created digital twins for rail infrastructure, bridge structures, industrial facilities, and complex civil works, providing clients with immersive 3D environments that reduce site visits, accelerate design coordination, and support confident decision-making.

Digital twins are geo-referenced to survey control networks, ensuring spatial alignment with client BIM platforms, GIS systems, and asset registers. This integration enables clash detection between existing conditions and proposed design intent, as-built verification against construction models, and progressive monitoring where digital twins are updated over time to track infrastructure changes and deterioration.