The Australian construction industry is far behind the rest of the world when it comes to digital innovation – a critical ingredient in meeting the demands of our rapidly growing population. With immense building and infrastructure pipelines in our cities, we must, as a nation and an industry, embrace digital innovation and artificial intelligence in order to unlock greater efficiencies, improved productivity and accuracies to future-proof our cities, particularly as we face scarcity in labour resources. Infrastructure planning and delivery requires a very specific skillset, not one that is easily transferable from the building sector. It should be home grown through our university system and imported from overseas through skilled migrants as our general population and transportation requirements are growing so quickly that we can't keep up. Simply, there's more work than there are skilled workers.