Digitising and Understanding the Built Environment at Turner & Townsend
1,701 views · Published 20 November 2014 · 54:56 · Indexed 27 October 2026
Channel: Tableau · 2014 · Science & Technology
Chris Gage , Director , Turner & Townsend The infrastructure sector faces greater challenges than most in the acquisition and analysis of data. Whereas sectors such as financial services generally hold assets which start and end their life as data, organisations in the built environment have to convert the physical world into the virtual world. Utilities and transportation assets are highly variable, widely distributed geographically, and subject to unpredictable weather conditions. These factors mean the acquisition cost of data is higher and the benefits of insight must be greater . As a result, the infrastructure sector is a long way behind almost all others in the adoption of analytics. Chris founded the Commercial Intelligence team at Turner & Townsend, a global construction consultancy, to address these issues. And the weapon of choice? Tableau. With large amounts of variable quality, disparate data to analyse, he needed a tool that was flexible, easy-to-use, created beautiful outputs, and delivered rapid results. Attend this session to learn about the unique challenges faced by the infrastructure sector and the solutions Turner & Townsend arrived at to tame the data and provide new insights.
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