TORONTO · LIVE
UTCI · thermal comfort
COOLHOT

Microclimate · Surface & energy · Wind · Daylight · Grid

See the
microclimate
before you build it.

CityDigitalTwin physically simulates how heat, wind, sun, building energy, and the power grid behave across a whole city — so architects, planners, and utilities can design cooler, healthier, more resilient places.

Working with
NVIDIA Hydro-Québec City of Toronto Concordia University

One platform, every scale

From street-level heat to the power grid.

Most tools solve one slice of the urban climate problem. CityDigitalTwin couples them — microclimate, energy demand, and grid response in a single, physics-based model.

Urban microclimate

Heat-island mapping, air temperature, and thermal-comfort (UTCI) across every street and courtyard.

Heat · Humidity · Rain

Building energy

Whole-city UBEM for heating, cooling, and HVAC loads — building by building, hour by hour.

UBEM · HVAC · Loads

Wind & comfort

Pedestrian wind comfort and safety, ventilation corridors, and gust risk around towers.

CFD · Pedestrian

Solar & shading

Solar radiation, daylight, and shadow studies to place mass, glazing, and green roofs precisely.

Radiation · Daylight

Grid resilience

Building-to-grid coupling: forecast demand, peak stress, and outage risk under climate extremes.

B2G · Forecast

Carbon & renewables

Track emissions and size PV, vegetation, and green infrastructure against real climate data.

CO₂ · PV · Green

The digital twin

Your city, physically simulated.

Import terrain, buildings, and materials, then run coupled climate and energy physics on GPU. Explore results as heat maps, isotherms, and building-level metrics you can actually design against.

  • GPU-accelerated solvers, powered by NVIDIA
  • Real weather, terrain, and material data built in
  • Compare design options side by side, in the browser
  • Export stakeholder-ready reports in minutes
CityDigitalTwin · plan view · surface temperature
GRID 512m · 22×16 CELLSΔθ +6.4°C PEAK

How it works

Model, simulate, decide.

A workflow built for early-stage decisions — when changing the design still costs nothing.

01

Build the twin

Drop in a site or a whole district. Buildings, terrain, vegetation, and materials become a simulation-ready model in minutes.

02

Run the simulation

Couple microclimate, building energy, and grid response in one GPU run — no separate tools, no hand-offs.

03

Act on the results

Read the heat, comfort, energy, and cost impact of each option and share a report your stakeholders understand.

6 domains
Coupled in one model
−4°C
Street-level cooling modeled
GPU
NVIDIA-accelerated physics
100k+
Buildings per city model

Case study

“PGL's CityDigitalTwin tool provides an accessible way for urban planners to understand development options in terms of microclimate effects.”

John Bolduc · Climate Planner, Greater Boston

Book a demo

Design the climate-smart city.

See CityDigitalTwin run on your own site or district. We'll walk you through microclimate, energy, and grid results in 30 minutes.