Digital Transformation Readiness in Infrastructure Project

Abstract

Digital technologies have brought a new performance momentum in all industries and businesses wherever it has been fully adopted from manufacturing to healthcare and to climate change monitoring. In construction, the digital transformation has been limited to design phases while missing the operations part. It becomes crucial for the world's largest ecosystem to accelerate this digitalization at full scale. In infrastructure projects, digitalization is introduced to the operational level as a ready-made tool that lacks flexibility. This paper describes the barriers to the digital transition in construction operations, combined with the emerging impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from planning and progress monitoring aspects. Adoption of lean construction implementation in infrastructure projects in the State of Qatar, requires adoption for digital tools for data collection, verification, and analysis. This process is continuously improved at the project level to deliver a digital tool that is tailored to the infrastructure projects. This paper describes the initial steps for digital transformation in infrastructure projects in-line with a digital maturity growth.