Unasys’ Navitas Digital Thread platform could bring considerable value to the Restoration and Renewal (R&R) of the Palace of Westminster, a uniquely complex, politically sensitive, and heritage-rich programme.
How Navitas Can Support the Programme
1. Integrated Asset Intelligence and Data Governance
Current Challenge: The Palace comprises over 1,100 rooms, 3 miles of corridors, and infrastructure dating back to the 19th century. Existing asset data is fragmented or outdated.
Navitas Value: Enables creation of a unified digital twin across all asset types—heritage, MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing), and structural.
Common Data Environment (CDE) aligned with ISO 19650.
Integration of historical surveys, point clouds, BIM models, and operational data.
Accuracy: Proven in managing legacy assets in Oil & Gas and critical infrastructure, offering 90–95% improvement in data accessibility and version control.
2. Programme Controls and Decision Support
Current Challenge: Complex interdependencies between enabling works, decanting MPs, and restoration phases.
Navitas Value: Provides a Digital Thread that connects programme schedule, cost, risk, and asset performance data in real time.
Helps answer: "What happens if this intervention is delayed?"
Enables scenario planning and adaptive phasing strategies.
Comparable Impact: In offshore wind, Navitas reduced decision latency by 60%, which could equate to millions in avoided overruns on a multi-billion-pound programme like Westminster.
3. Heritage & Compliance Assurance
Current Challenge: Restoration must comply with historic building standards, security protocols, and modern regulations.
Navitas Value: Automates compliance tracking, generates auditable records, and visualises design compliance across systems.
Links digital records to physical interventions for heritage artefacts, services, and structural repairs.
Accuracy: Audit-ready logs with traceability from concept to commissioning.
4. Stakeholder Collaboration & Transparency
Current Challenge: Numerous stakeholders—Parliament, contractors, heritage bodies, public—require transparent and timely updates.
Navitas Value: Delivers structured, role-based dashboards and digital workflows.
Supports public accountability with clear evidence trails.
Facilitates early contractor involvement and informed decision-making.
Real-world Outcome: Demonstrated 40–60% improvement in stakeholder alignment in major energy projects.
5. Lifecycle Management Beyond Handover
Current Challenge: Without digital continuity, O&M teams struggle post-completion.
Navitas Value: Maintains a live Digital Twin that supports Facilities Management (FM) post-restoration.
Links commissioning data to long-term maintenance plans.
Enables predictive maintenance and risk-based inspections.
