Procurement and contracting for climate-change data and digital solutions

The current constraint on skills and knowledge across the infrastructure sector on how to set up, structure and procure digital solutions at each stage of the asset life cycle needs to be rapidly overcome to allow climate-change targets to be achieved. Digital solutions and data sharing must be given a high priority, with operating models developed and funded as part of the overall resourcing, procurement and contracting process for infrastructure assets. This paper summarises some of the practical structural and legal considerations which need to be overcome to enable digital solutions – particularly building information modelling and digital twins – to be successfully implemented to support infrastructure climate-change targets.