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Collaborating across the information value chain with infrastructure digital twins
Here’s Why Investors are Starting to Pay Attention to Infrastructure Digital Twins
By Steve Cockerell, Industry Marketing Director, Rail & Transit, Bentley Systems
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There is also a significant opportunity to use digital twins to help the investment community with key challenges such as capital allocation, risk screening and management, asset value enhancement through improved performance and reliability, and compliance with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) requirements.
ESG loans have become increasingly widespread, and new professions in the financial sector are being formed to focus on ESG-related investments. My colleague, Mark Coates, International Director of Public Policy and Advocacy at Bentley Systems recently published a white paper that looked at ‘The Power of Data for Long-Lasting Change’ (direct download of white paper available here) in which he highlighted that in February 2020, Great Portland Estates signed a GBP 450 million, ESG-linked, revolving credit facility with a group of five banks, as part of its plans to become net-zero by 2030.
The basics of the information value chain must be applied to harness this potential. The financial community can assist in using data insights to tackle their most pressing challenges by engaging with the entire sector to build realistic use cases. The infrastructure industry must contribute by approaching this debate with openness and flexibility. They must also understand that investors create returns on investment in several ways, through various asset types and at various phases of the infrastructure lifecycle. Some of their use cases will overlap with those established before for supply chain enterprises or operators, while others will not.
We must first improve the quality of dialogue between investors and other stakeholders in the infrastructure sector, reimagine the information value chain from an investor’s perspective, investigate how investors can expand their leadership role, and share some use cases that investors are currently pursuing. There are three critical phases to doing this: First the infrastructure industry needs to recognize the many different infrastructure investors and what this entails for the various ways in which they might profit from digital twins. Second, recognize how investors classify infrastructure. And third, connect digital twin use cases to various investing strategies.
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This article was republished with prior written permission from Bentley Systems.
(Source: Cockerell, Steve. “Here’s Why Investors Are Starting to Pay Attention to Infrastructure Digital Twins.” Bentley Blog, Bentley Systems, 6 Sept. 2022, https://blog.bentley.com/heres-why-investors-are-starting-to-pay-attention-to-infrastructure-digital-twins/.)
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