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Autodesk is buying MaintainX for $3.6 billion. In my opinion, it’s not an announcement, it’s an admission. For years, Autodesk #Tandem could show you everything happening in your building and then stop at the work order. The moment insight needed to become action, you left the Autodesk ecosystem and opened a different tool. That gap was real. We saw it firsthand in our digital twin work with a top tier GC exploring #DigitalTwins for their own clients. MaintainX was selected specifically to close the loop between what the twin was detecting and what the facilities team could act on. Autodesk just paid $3.6 billion to own that connection. What this eventually may create is something the AEC industry has been waiting for: a single platform thread from design model through daily maintenance execution. BIM → construction → as-built (reality capture)→ operations → work order. One ecosystem. One data model. The CEO put it plainly: “We can connect the teams who design and build assets with the teams who operate and maintain them every day.” That sentence is the entire value proposition of facilities digital twins, said out loud by one of the largest software companies in the built environment. The stack is coming together. The firms already operating at this intersection won’t need to catch up. TransformXD | Digital transformation for the built environment #DigitalTwin #Autodesk #MaintainX #AEC #FacilitiesManagement #SmartBuildings https://lnkd.in/eDVytUGz