Digital Construction

Policy Statement

Approved by Board of Directors, May 19, 2021

Digital Construction is defined as commercially proven digital technologies and processes for management of construction and engineering activities, including systems for infrastructure project procurement, planning and coordination, construction, digital as-builts, e-Ticketing, operations and maintenance, modernization and management, asset management systems for machines, site equipment, and personnel.

Digital construction technologies will provide mechanisms and processes to decrease and more properly allocate project risk, reduce schedule uncertainty, increase productivity and efficiency, lower cost, and deliver safer, higher quality, and environmentally sustainable infrastructure projects. In order to accelerate innovation in the U.S. transportation design and construction industry, ARTBA supports the adoption of open data standards, the model as the legal document (MALD), and modern, commercially-proven, and competitively acquired digital construction technologies and processes for infrastructure projects.