Hollywood Park, a nearly 300-acre sports and entertainment district in Inglewood, Calif., being developed by Los Angeles Rams owner and chairman Stan Kroenke, now has a digital twin of its biggest venue, the $5.5-billion SoFi Stadium. As home of both the Rams and the Chargers, it's the first NFL stadium that has a digital twin being used for operations, maintenance and building efficiency.
"The idea of creating a digital twin for this project is something we hatched a few years ago," says Skarpi Hedinsson, CTO of SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park, who worked with software developer Willow on the digital twin. "We hooked up with Willow pretty early in the process. We really partnered extremely closely with them on implementation and creation of it as we went through the construction process. Having a 3D representation of the built world, we thought would have sort of an immediate, positive impact, especially for this project which is 3.1 million sq ft."