SCSI Digitalisation Strategy

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Our Digital Strategy

The Irish built environment is continuing to adapt to change driven by growing sustainability demands, evolving client expectations, and an increasingly complex regulatory landscape. Digitalisation is a critical enabler for delivering sustainable, efficient, and transparent outcomes. Recognising this, SCSI has developed a comprehensive strategy to build on the significant work already undertaken by the surveying profession and others within the construction, land and property sectors, and to assist members and broader stakeholders through continued changed and transformation towards a digitised sustainable future, where digitalisation – behaviours, processes, and tools, support sustainable practices and outcomes. This strategy places cultural change at its core, fostering shared understanding, capability building, and collaborative momentum across
the value chain.

In this strategy, digitalisation refers to the collective use of digital tools, processes, roles and responsibilities,
shared language and standards, as well as behaviours that support collaboration across the value chain.
Digitised sustainability is the integration of all the above to help drive sustainable practices and value creation.
It is a foundation for collaboration, transparency, better decisions, and a more sustainable industry.

Digitised sustainability provides significant benefits:

  • Cost and Resource Efficiency: Optimised design, construction, and operations, reducing waste and cost.
  • Data-Driven Decisions: Reliable, real-time data supporting transparent decision-making and risk
    management.
  • Lifecycle Collaboration: Seamless information flow across disciplines, enabling better asset management
    and circularity.
  • Operational Sustainability: Enhanced performance monitoring, carbon reduction, and compliance
    alignment.
  • New Business Models: Emergence of value-based service models and long-term economic and
    environmental gains.

Strategy Aims

  • To prepare and equip SCSI, our Members, students and broader stakeholders such as investors and
    member clients to use digitalisation to improving competencies, increase knowledge and developing a greater sense of agency.
  • Identify the challenges and risks posed by digitalisation for our industry e.g. cost/perceived cost, privacy,
    digital disruptors, technology dependence and share lessons learned.
  • Provide advice and guidance on the use of digital solutions to increase efficiency, facilitate collaboration
    and allow for monitoring and capture of data to improve decision making.
  • Focus on the how, not on any particular technology.
  • Learn lessons both from existing initiatives both in Ireland and other jurisdictions and apply learnings in
    our context with consideration to Irish law, regulation, practice etc
  •  Ensure that professionals currently in property, land and construction and the future pipeline of
    professionals are all considered as requirements may differ.
  •  Ensure interaction with other professions e.g. architects, engineers, bankers, solicitors etc.

Change Tracks as Strategic Stepping Stones

The strategy will be operationalised through nine Change Tracks, each with clear actions and recommendations.
KPI’s, supporting activities, and defined stakeholder engagement will also be put in place to support the
realisation of the strategy:

  1. Governance, Roles & Responsibilities: Establish governance frameworks, clarify stakeholder roles, and
    continue to foster cross-sector coordination.
  2. Impact Communication & Engagement: Continue to build SCSI’s role as a national voice and trusted
    advocate, through targeted communications.
  3. Policy & Legislative Influence: Influence national and EU policy frameworks to contribute to the process
    of embedding digital sustainability into legislation, regulation and policy.
  4. Common Digital Language: Develop and promote a common language, standards, and interoperable
    data structures to enable seamless collaboration.
  5. Common Tools & Processes: Drive adoption of standardised digital tools, reporting formats, and
    workflows to reduce fragmentation and improve performance tracking.
  6. Data-Driven Decisions: Foster a robust, interoperable data ecosystem that enables data sharing,
    certification, and sustainability benchmarking across lifecycles.
  7. Technology & AI: Lead responsible integration of AI and automation, supporting skill development,
    ethical deployment, and efficiency gains.
  8. Innovation & Demonstration: Establish a national ecosystem of demonstrator projects, de-risking
    innovation and showcasing real-world digital transformation.
  9. Education for Digitised Sustainability: Build a comprehensive national education ecosystem, embedding
    digital competence across all career stages and disciplines.