It's time for public agencies to embrace the shift to digital construction project delivery, David Unkefer, senior construction engineer at the Federal Highway Administration, told construction sector professionals at ENR's FutureTech conference on June 9.
His agency is looking to go fully digital for greater productivity in project delivery and asset management, and welcomes use of alternative contracting methods that integrate design and build and allow for post-construction data management, he said—highlighting its support of an initiative to adopt proven technologies such as e-tickets and digital as-builts and building a pooled database to create GIS data for use on projects.