The goal of infrastructure is to create a high-functioning asset that serves a community need.
Using digital tools and processes during all project phases can help governments achieve this goal. This can improve infrastructure delivery and community usability and engagement.103
For example, combining geographic, demographic and future land-use data will help to determine the optimal location and function of a health infrastructure asset.
The benefits of using data to deliver the right project at the right time are clear.104 However, while there has been a major uplift in the volume of data and information available to decision-makers, it is often unstructured, of mixed quality, siloed, or kept in proprietary formats.
In these circumstances, its value is reduced which may hinder the quality of project decisions.
Governments that address this issue with a sense of urgency will reap a 1-2% productivity increase a year while reducing sector risk.105