Wind Farm Simulator: Visualising impacts on landholders

The challenge

Conversations with landholders affected by wind farms are sensitive, challenging and profoundly important. These discussions often involve balancing technical information with deeply personal questions about landscape change, visual amenity and the future of a place people call home.

Those conversations become even more difficult when stakeholders are asked to interpret static plans or wait weeks for photomontages to be developed and updated. Traditional visual impact assessments are time-consuming, expensive and often struggle to keep pace with evolving project designs.

Project teams need a better way to communicate change-one that allows landholders, communities and decision-makers to explore proposals in context, understand impacts in real time, and participate in more informed and constructive conversations.

Our solution

We developed a digital twin platform that enables project teams, landholders and communities to explore proposed developments in an immersive, real-world environment.

By integrating design models, spatial data and site imagery into a shared visual experience, the platform allows users to see how infrastructure will appear in the landscape, test different scenarios, and understand potential impacts in real time. Rather than relying on static plans or waiting for updated photomontages, stakeholders can interact with project information as designs evolve.

The platform transforms complex technical information into intuitive visualisations that support more meaningful conversations, helping communities ask better questions and enabling project teams to respond with greater clarity, transparency and empathy.

The outcome

The result is a more informed and collaborative engagement process. Landholders and communities gain a clearer understanding of how projects may affect the places they live, while project teams are better equipped to explain design decisions, explore alternatives and respond to concerns as they arise.

By making impacts easier to visualise and conversations easier to navigate, the platform builds trust, reduces uncertainty and supports more confident decision-making throughout planning, approvals and delivery.