Technology

How the Construction Industry Can Optimize Its Approach to Digital Engineering
Digital engineering is not just the uptake of new technologies, but the concerted effort to use smart technologies to unlock greater value across the entire lifecycle of a capital asset.
By Nathan Doughty
October 26, 2020
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by Nathan Doughty
Nathan led the initial development of the Asite Platform starting in 2002 as CTO and later served as Chief Operating Officer leading global sales growth before taking over as Group CEO at the beginning of 2020. He has spent his career in construction and property technology, having spent time before Asite at Bidcom and KPMG Consulting. As an American who has spent 20 years based in the U.K. and 13 years married to his British wife Emma and raising two Anglo-American kids together, he recognizes the importance of international collaborative working. Nathan has been active in standards work for collaborative BIM throughout his career with involvement in BuildingSMART, OpenBIM, and the British Standards Institute working groups for data interoperability. Nathan is a graduate of Rice University in Houston, Tex.
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