The Future of Infrastructure Is Open - Connected World
Here’s something three decades in construction have taught me: there will always be multiple vendors. And there’s never going to be one single vendor that does everything a project team needs. So, that makes the real question more interesting: how do you work with all the data across multiple platforms in a meaningful way? That is the question of this decade.
As infrastructure becomes increasingly digital, the ability to move information across systems—and preserve its meaning along the way could become just as important as the tools used to create it.
Recently, I had a conversation with Greg Demchak, vice president of emerging technologies at Bentley Systems, about why an open approach to infrastructure engineering matters, especially today. One point he made has stayed with me: infrastructure isn’t temporary.Think about that for a moment. Whatever form it takes, an infrastructure project is an asset built to endure...
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