April 12 Council Meeting The agenda for last Tuesday’s council meeting was brief, mostly due to Monday’s departure of City Manager Eileen Donoghue. City Clerk Michael Geary, appointed by the council to be interim city manager, filled in ably as he’s done before but no major reports or initiatives were presented to the council.
I have a suggestion about the Future of Facility Maintenance & Operations for the City of Lowell. The investment needed to build a "Digital Twin" can be paid by some of that windfall funding sitting at the city's doorstep. What that investment creates is a workable solution that plans for the near term and for the future. To better understand what a digital twin is and how it can solve all the problems mentioned in the above post I've provided a YouTube Video Link
The concept doesn't just provide substantial cost savings by being efficient and transparent but it also assigns KPI to be met by the obligations of contractors so if early failures or poor workmanship can be clearly pointed to and whom to blame.
You can replace a window half a dozen times but if it's the construction of the wall the window sits in and not the window itself causing air leakages, you could end up throwing a million dollars at a problem and never resolve it cause you don't have any type of metric to evaluate what issues you have at hand.
I have a suggestion about the Future of Facility Maintenance & Operations for the City of Lowell. The investment needed to build a "Digital Twin" can be paid by some of that windfall funding sitting at the city's doorstep. What that investment creates is a workable solution that plans for the near term and for the future. To better understand what a digital twin is and how it can solve all the problems mentioned in the above post I've provided a YouTube Video Link
https://youtu.be/asMox4SA-as
The concept doesn't just provide substantial cost savings by being efficient and transparent but it also assigns KPI to be met by the obligations of contractors so if early failures or poor workmanship can be clearly pointed to and whom to blame.
You can replace a window half a dozen times but if it's the construction of the wall the window sits in and not the window itself causing air leakages, you could end up throwing a million dollars at a problem and never resolve it cause you don't have any type of metric to evaluate what issues you have at hand.