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How digital twins are now cleaning your commercial property.

29 September 2021

How can we improve the ability to correctly price cleaning and other facility management (FM) services using data and technology? What are the consequences when contracts not being properly priced? How can we use scanning and digital twins to improve the provision of FM for asset owners and service providers alike? How has coronavirus changed the world of commercial cleaning? Has FM not seen the levels of innovation that are bringing benefits to other parts of the property lifecycle?

Keith Ryan from ScanQuo speaks to Andrew Knight on these topics as they discuss the application of data and technology on cleaning and other FM services.

More information regarding the Tech Partner Programme and our partner ScanQuo can be found here.

RICS Tech Partner Programme talk with ScanQuo – Use of digital twin in facility management

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