Transforming Built Environment Performance

It’s time that we saw the built environment differently, not as a series of construction projects, but as a system of systems whose explicit purpose is to enable people and nature to flourish together for generations.

This presentation will explore 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.

Bio – Mark Enzer OBE, Head of the National Digital Twin programme at the Centre for Digital Built Britain and Chief Technical Officer of Mott MacDonald.

Mark is a keen champion of innovation in the context of collaborative delivery models and he 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.  In addition, he is a co-chair of the Construction Leadership Council’s Digital Network and he is the Digital Transformation workstream lead for the Infrastructure Client Group, which represents the UK’s major infrastructure client organisations.  Mark was the Lead Author of the Infrastructure Carbon   Review, published by HM Treasury.