1# 3D City Model & Digital Twin Software for Design & Planning

VU.CITY is transforming cities through greater understanding, collaboration and trust to help you turn possibilities into realities.‍

‍‍Test ideas instantly and visualize schemes in accurate, up-to-date context, with functionality and data that helps you make better decisions, faster.

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Project teams can better collaborate and expedite decision-making; and communicate the compelling story of proposals to win over stakeholders.

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VU.CITY means that architects, developers, planning consultants and local authorities share a clear path in mapping out a city’s future. Now everyone can work together to deliver the best possible city for all.

Create smart cities the smart way

VU.CITY helps you visualize, organise and analyse data clearly and easily so that everyone involved can make better and quicker decisions.

VU.CITY covers the whole of London and 25 major UK and international cities.

Transform design and planning

Quickly identify and appraise sites. VU.CITY's visualization, design functionality and planning data, allow you to optimise your designs.

Build trust and collaboration

Now everyone involved can have a clear, universal understanding of what’s proposed and why, in a single, secure place. VU.CITY makes decision-making democratic and fair.

Improve
outcomes

Remove barriers and minimise risks early. Have confidence in your designs and plans. Increase buy-in for project success.

Test out ideas in situ, from one building to a masterplan. Create your vision and submissions with confidence.

Collate site information in one place

Communicate complex spatial arrangements

Make documentation stand up and stand out

Speed up planning conversations

Strengthen relationships

Create winning submissions

In your words

“We're bringing in architects and our clients and different consultants into one room and we're viewing the proposals, the massing of the buildings from day one, and we're building basically the drawings and the architecture and the massing through VU.CITY”

Charlotte Orrell

Senior Planner - Iceni Projects

“Councils can see, planning officers can see very quickly when they see a development of VU.CITY that it makes sense to them. They really feel like we're not hiding anything from them. Historically, you'd give them five or six views and they'd go, "Oh, you cherry-picked the best ones." And now we can take them through that process and that's helped massively.”

Laurie Handcock

Director - Iceni Projects

"The digitisation of planning as outlined in the Whitepaper presents an exciting step in speeding up the planning process and improving engagement with communities. We are already working with VU.CITY and some of our local authority partners to be a leader in digital consultation in line with the ambitions outlined in the new government Whitepaper."

David Bloy

Planning Director - British Land

"VU.CITY is helping us analyse projects at an early stage and refine elements of our live projects faster and more accurately. Being able to quickly assess a site or stress test things like massing and planning context provides us with more clarity and objectivity that would previously have taken us a lot longer to achieve."

Jack Hawkins

Development Manager - Londonewcastle

"VU.CITY is not simply a 3D software offer, it's a four if not five dimensional space that incorporates live time and place capabilities. Going forward the synchronicity that VU.CITY provides to connect with other big data intelligence is an opportunity for urbanists to evidence with greater certainty, support for development or preservation initiatives."