Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, architecture, consulting, and digital solutions, launched LiveTwin™, the flagship solution of digitalMBI, the firm’s digital innovation platform. Unveiled during the company’s inaugural Tech Summit, LiveTwin creates a living digital representation of facilities, campuses, infrastructure, and operations by connecting assets, systems, models, and real-time data into a single intelligent environment.
Built for owners, operators, public agencies, and infrastructure professionals, LiveTwin unifies building information modelling (BIM), geographic information systems (GIS), reality capture, the internet of things (IoT), enterprise systems, and workflows into a shared operational view of the built environment. By connecting and contextualising data across these systems, LiveTwin creates a trusted foundation where AI can deliver real-time insights, automation, and intelligent decision support.
The open platform is already in use by early adopters across more than 1,400 facilities in the United States, representing more than 30 million square feet of managed space. These early access partners have been able to onboard in minutes rather than months, with some reporting performance improvements exceeding 20 times the legacy solutions they replaced. These early results demonstrate how digital twins can deliver measurable operational value today, without requiring organisations to rebuild their digital environments from scratch or replace existing technology investments.
With the launch of LiveTwin, Michael Baker introduces the first in a growing portfolio of digital MBI solutions designed to help clients address increasingly complex infrastructure challenges.
Built as an AI-native platform from day one, LiveTwin embeds AI directly into the data foundation rather than layering it on after the fact. Combining digital engineering, data ontology, analytics, and operational technologies, LiveTwin enables organisations to scale knowledge, automate workflows, and accelerate decision-making across the asset lifecycle at enterprise scale.
LiveTwin is part of digitalMBI, Michael Baker’s digital innovation ecosystem created to help owners and operators modernise how infrastructure is designed, delivered, operated, and maintained. Working alongside the company’s enterprise AI platform, Titan, LiveTwin combines AI reasoning, automation, and governance with deep engineering and infrastructure expertise while ensuring clients retain ownership, control, and traceability of their data. Together, these capabilities help provide the foundation for a growing portfolio of AI-enabled digital solutions that bring engineering, operations, and enterprise intelligence into a connected ecosystem.
“The future of infrastructure depends on the ability to turn data into insight and insight into action. Our industry does not have a data creation problem. It has a data connection problem. Infrastructure information exists everywhere but too often remains locked inside disconnected systems. LiveTwin creates the digital foundation that allows AI to work across that information in a trusted and meaningful way. When data, context, and AI come together, owners can move beyond seeing their assets to understanding performance, anticipating needs, and making better decisions about the future,” said Rod Malehmir, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer at Michael Baker International.
Unlike traditional digital twin solutions focused primarily on visualisation, LiveTwin is designed to operationalise data across the asset lifecycle. By creating a contextualised understanding of assets, operations, and infrastructure systems, the platform helps organisations improve resiliency, manage risk, prioritise investments, and transition from reactive operations to predictive, intelligence-driven asset management. The result is a platform that helps organisations scale expertise, not just data.
As part of Michael Baker’s broader engineering, consulting, and advisory services, LiveTwin complements the firm’s ability to help clients navigate increasingly complex infrastructure, data, and technology challenges. Together, these capabilities combine deep domain expertise with innovative digital solutions to help clients deliver meaningful outcomes across the infrastructure lifecycle.
