Digital Assets in the Built Environment: From Strategy to Operational Intelligence

Adelaide | 22 Sep | 12pm

Digital assets are not handover deliverables; they are information capabilities that must be designed from the outset. This presentation from Rebecca De Cicco FCIOB, Director of Built Digital SA, and Founder & Global Chair of Women in BIM examines how an intelligent asset owner can set a digital and information strategy early, align requirements with ISO 19650, and translate them into procurement and contracts so appointed parties clearly understand their obligations. It explores how compliance can be monitored throughout design and delivery using information requirements, responsibility matrices, common data environments, assurance gates and measurable acceptance criteria. Finally, it considers the operational capability required to keep asset information current after handover – including governance, competent people, defined update processes and connected digital systems. The objective is a trusted, maintainable digital asset that supports safer decisions, better maintenance, performance and long-term value.

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Transforming Infrastructure Decision Making: Aqwest’s Strategic Decommissioning and Infrastructure Prioritisation Framework

Online | 22 September | 1pm AEST

This presentation will focus on how Aqwest, in partnership with BetterAIM, developed a transparent, corporate-objective-aligned decision framework to address increasing climate risk, ageing infrastructure and uncertainty around which assets should be renewed, retained or decommissioned within the Bunbury Water Supply Scheme.

The co-designed methodology integrates weighted strategic objectives, risk and benefit scoring, and pre- and post-mitigant analysis to prioritise activities across the entire scheme. The framework transformed reactive project listings into structured, evidence-based infrastructure governance.

The framework has reshaped the Strategic Asset Plan and long-term water strategy, strengthened Board confidence, and is being embedded more broadly within the organisation. It represents a significant innovation in infrastructure planning under uncertainty.

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