Author: Aaron Smedley

Today, infrastructure construction and operations account for approximately 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions—in some cases more, depending on how you define infrastructure. The bottom line is we have now less than 10 years to transform our world and achieve the sustainable development goals we set to accomplish by 2030. At YII (Year in Infrastructure), which was held December 1-2, Greg Bentley, CEO, Bentley Systems, and Matthias Rebellius, CEO, Siemens Building Technologies, discussed some of the challenges regarding future proofing existing infrastructure. Bentley pointed to the fact that Europe can’t possibly meet the net zero goals without electrifying all of the…