get so how much you are building more because it's good for people and it will it will help them increase their mobility versus the environmental impact which it definitely has hold your nose and journey just beneath the surface of the uk's capital and you'll find a NUMBER_TOKEN billion dollar super sewer under construction sewage in london typically flows through a system of tunnels to a treatment facility but when it rains the current victorian system overflows and raw sewage spills into the thames to solve this the city is constructing a NUMBER_TOKEN mile long underwater tunnel that's the width of three london buses the idea is that when the current system overflows the most polluting sewage will be re-routed to the new tunnel up to NUMBER_TOKEN meters below ground the projects being paid for by customers water bills and is expected to prevent millions of tons of sewage from polluting the river the uk's also investing in flood defenses across the nation something that's particularly pressing as streets and train stations have flooded in recent months another urgent infrastructure challenge is getting everyone reliable internet the uk's gigabit broadband coverage lags behind other countries and providing the entire nation with high-speed broadband will require enough cabling to wrap around the earth more than NUMBER_TOKEN times the government's aiming to get NUMBER_TOKEN percent of the uk gigabit capable coverage by NUMBER_TOKEN. NUMBER_TOKEN of the total work is expected to be done by private companies like city fibre open reach and virgin media the other NUMBER_TOKEN will be covered by the government which is investing nearly seven billion dollars to address those harder to reach places beyond broadband the government's been pushing for a digital revolution within the construction industry itself and when it comes to tech adoption the infrastructure sector tends to lag behind that's because it deals with big complicated projects that often take decades to complete that means lots of site visits handovers contracts and of course paperwork but this new infrastructure strategy might be just the push it needs to finally go fully digital it's an industry in particular that is steeped in history and tradition in the way of doing things if you were trying to do the old days in a non-digital method you're you're having to go back and and chase multiple sources and archives of probably paper-based information or even multiple sources of data that might be in somebody's hard drive or network storage somewhere that's now steadily changing as teams shift and embrace digital collaboration the pandemic has upended the way we work but in a way also accelerated the infrastructure sector to become more efficient flexible and sustainable with fewer people working on sites digital collaboration tools like bluebeam's review have enabled construction on major infrastructure projects to keep going often in a much more efficient and paperless way i think it's now exposed that this is a must people can't go back to doing things the old way the mere fact that we've seen projects continue through lockdown and through a pandemic in the last year and a half i think is evident that if they didn't adopt new technologies and digital approaches they wouldn't be able to do any of those things
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN beyond broadband the government's been pushing for a digital revolution within the construction industry itself and when it comes to tech adoption the infrastructure sector tends to lag behind that's because it deals with big complicated projects that often take decades to complete that means lots of site visits handovers contracts and of course paperwork but this new infrastructure strategy might be just the push it needs to finally go fully digital it's an industry in particular that is steeped in history and tradition in the way of doing things if you were trying to do the old days in a non-digital method you're you're having to go back and and chase multiple sources and archives of probably paper-based information or even multiple sources of data that might be in somebody's hard drive or network storage somewhere that's now steadily changing as teams shift and embrace digital collaboration the pandemic has upended the way we work but in a way also accelerated the infrastructure sector to become more efficient flexible and sustainable with fewer people working on sites digital collaboration tools like bluebeam's review have enabled construction on major infrastructure projects to keep going often in a much more efficient and paperless way i think it's now exposed that this is a must people can't go back to doing things the old way the mere fact that we've seen projects continue through lockdown and through a pandemic in the last year and a half i think is evident that if they didn't adopt new technologies and digital approaches they wouldn't be able to do any of those things END_SPONSOR_TOKEN