Dezeen teamed up with Dassault Systèmes to host a live talk with Waugh Thistleton Architects on the convergence between digital-twin technology and use of mass timber in construction.
Dezeen's chief content officer Ben Hobson moderated the panel, which is titled How Virtual Mass Timber Extends and Improves Real Mass Timber.
French design software brand Dassault Systèmes was represented on the panel by Jerry Jackson, its director of architecture, engineering and construction, alongside online business consultant Nuri Miller.

Haggart, senior associate at Waugh Thistleton Architects, also appeared on the panel to discuss her firm?s pioneering use of cross-laminated timber (CLT), a type of mass timber.
The panellists explored how virtual solutions are able to inform and improve architecture, engineering and construction in the physical realm. The discussion also focussed on how the emerging concept of digital twins ? also known as virtual twins ? complements the growing use of mass timber as a material in architecture and construction.
Digital twins are digital representations of physical objects or processes, like buildings, that serve as their real-time virtual counterparts.
Jerry Jackson, director of architecture, engineering and construction at Dassault Systèmes
Jackson joined Dassault Systèmes in 2011 and leads the company's development on virtual twin technology.
In his previous role at American design software company Autodesk, he was part of a team that defined and...