CSEI Seminar series - Transforming Built Environment Performance

CSEI Seminar Series – 9 November 2021

Transforming Built Environment Performance

On 9 November 2021, we were delighted to host a talk by Mark Enzer, OBE. Mark, CTO of Mott MacDonald and a keen champion of innovation in the context of collaborative delivery models, is particularly interested in the transformation of the infrastructure industry, including systems-thinking, digital transformation, connected digital twins, data infrastructure, low-carbon sustainable solutions and the circular economy in the built environment.

As the Head of the National Digital Twin programme within the Centre for Digital Built Britain, Mark is contributing to the leadership of this ambitious programme to enable an ecosystem of connected digital twins across the built environment.

His presentation explored the why, the what and the how of transforming built environment performance under the following headings:

Outcomes – It is only when we shift our focus from creating the built environment to the outcomes enabled by it that people and nature can thrive together for the generations to come.

Systems – The built and natural environments are complex and interconnected systems that are essential for our wellbeing.

Services – Improving outcomes for people and nature depends on the services that these systems provide and on coordinating the built environment as a whole, not just as individual parts.

Enablers – There is now an advanced array of enablers that we can help make this vision a reality, but only if we all play our part with energy, coordination and purpose.

A recording of the event is available here.

For more information about the Centre and to get involved click?here?or email Dr Jeni Giambona, j.giambona@imperial.ac.uk.