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Engineering firms have made substantial progress digitizing project information, but the next stage of digital transformation is increasingly about what happens to that information after it is created. As artificial intelligence, automation, digital twins, and data-driven decision making become more important, firms and infrastructure owners need information that can remain accessible, structured, contextualized, and usable as it moves across systems, organizations, projects, and stages of the infrastructure lifecycle.
This webinar will present findings from the ACEC Research Institute’s new study examining the current state and future of connected data in engineering and infrastructure. Drawing on interviews with engineering firms and public infrastructure owners and a national survey of ACEC member firms, Joseph Bates, the study’s lead researcher, will explore where the industry has made progress, where data connectivity continues to break down, and the organizational, technological, workforce, and client-related barriers limiting greater connectivity. The presentation will also examine the value firms are realizing from connected data, its growing relationship with AI, the capabilities firms will need, and the potential implications for project delivery, client relationships, services, contracts, and engineering business models.
The session will conclude with a look at the longer-term opportunity: moving from project information that simply exists to infrastructure information that remains useful across the asset lifecycle.
Registration to all Future of Engineering Roundtables is complimentary, made possible by the donors of the ACEC Research Institute.