A Sustainable Future
Digital technology and data are critical for achieving sustainability in the world and their use in the built environment will play a key role.
Risk as an Enabler
Digitalisation presents serious downside environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks if not advanced with care. By managing those risks we’ll realise its full potential in meeting ESG goals.
building digital trust
Earning trust in digital solutions from stakeholders - including investors, building communities and users - is necessary to achieve their ESG and economic benefits.
Sustainable Digitalisation is on the agenda for industry and government
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Sustainable Digitalisation
Sustainable digitalisation is using digital technologies - such as AI, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, digital twins, the Internet of Things or robotics - and data in ways that are responsible, ethical and sustainable; providing environmental, social and governance (ESG) benefits, while carefully managing the risk of harm.
The Sustainable Digitalisation Project (SDP)
The SDP is a multi-disciplinary collaboration across industry, government and academia with the purpose of establishing sustainable digitalisation in the built environment. We achieve this through clear principles, practical frameworks to bring the principles to life, and regular insights, debate and thought leadership from our SDP Roundtable.
Digitalisation-driven ESG Issues
The SDP focuses on a range of digitalisation-driven ESG issues of materiality to built environment stakeholders, looking through through the lenses of risk and opportunity:
Our Initiatives
Sustainable Digitalisation Principles
A set of five principles - with associated factors - which define what sustainable digitalisation in the built environment.
Principle Application Frameworks
Practical frameworks to help align organisation-wide practices and digital solutions to the sustainable digitalisation principles.
SDP Roundtable
A community of sharing, learning and practice to embed and evolve sustainable digitalisation in the built environment.
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