Key messages

•  Digital and data tools and practices are key to unlocking substantial productivity gains and efficiencies across infrastructure planning, delivery and operations.

•  The infrastructure and construction sector has one of the slowest adoption rates of technology, innovation and digitally supported ways of working.

•  Innovation supported by new technologies and digital transformation requires collaborative leadership between government and industry.

•  Government, as regulators, owners, funders and benefactors of public infrastructure, can play a lead role in the transition away from 'digital by exception' towards 'digital by default'.

•  There should be an initial focus on policies, developing digital skills to complement core professional competencies, and driving common standards and approaches.

•  Single-purpose creation and procurement of information and data must transition towards an environment where it is shared, reused, structured, open and valued.

•  With these changes, future infrastructure will be better designed for end users, governments will unlock significant productivity gains, and infrastructure will cost less to design, deliver, operate and maintain.