You're sitting on a goldmine of data. You can't access it.

15 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, William Doyle MRICS emphasizes the escalating importance of digital site records in construction projects. He outlines three key points: first, digitalisation transforms records from reactive, paper‑based artifacts into proactive tools for forecasting, risk understanding, and mitigation; second, maintaining a single source of truth for site records underpins the trust associated with NEC contracts, enhancing collaboration among clients, contractors, and suppliers; third, linking site records with contract‑management and programme systems creates powerful new capabilities, enabling data‑driven insights and applications previously unimagined.

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The way we capture records has changed, but how important they are, it's not. They are more important than ever. Digitalization has allowed us to do more with records, move away from reactive paper-based processes, instead be proactive, use it for forecasting, understanding risk, and mitigating those risks to projects. Secondly, records are important. Having one source of the truth is vital to all these projects. Having proper site records and projects has built on that foundation of trust that the NEC is famous for, and allow us to better collaborate as clients and contractors and suppliers. And my third key point is that we should combine this data. We should link our site records with other systems, contract management tools, programme tools. Doing that is an incredibly powerful offering, allows us to use that data in ways that we've not even thought about before.