Work together to avoid digital chaos, infrastructure tech tsar tells industry

The man leading the government’s drive to guide the development and adoption of a digital framework for infrastructure data, Mark Enzer, said it was essential that the industry collaborated on data sharing to avoid chaos breaking out. Mott MacDonald chief technical officer Enzer, who also chairs the Centre for Digital Built Britain’s Digital Framework Task Group, was speaking at ACE’s Digital Leadership Conference on 20 June 2019. Speaking about the development of digital twins and a national digital twin, Enzer said it was crucial to get the whole of the industry working together and sharing information. “Creating an ecosystem of connected twins – it’s all about enabling secure, connected data sharing,” Enzer said. “Working across a common vision and common standards, we absolutely need to collaborate. The Darwinian approach of letting everyone do their own thing would only lead to chaos, so bringing people together is essential,” he said. Enzer highlighted the importance of the new Digital Twin Hub (DT Hub). “This will enable an open, collaborative learning community that will define the standards for digital twins going forward,” he said.