Digital Asset Models

Sterling integrates digital models into asset management workflows — enabling desktop inspections, longitudinal defect tracking, work order specification, and asset register integration. These models reduce site access requirements, accelerate defect closure, and provide infrastructure owners with comprehensive condition records that support evidence-based intervention planning.

Our digital modelling capability leverages Sterling's Geospatial & Digital Surveying services for field capture (digital twins, laser scanning, drone surveys). Once captured, our asset management team uses these models to conduct remote inspections, monitor deterioration trends, specify maintenance scopes, and integrate condition data with client asset registers and work management systems.

For example, desktop inspections on digital models eliminate repeated lane closures or track occupations for follow-up assessments. Defects can be measured, photographed, and tracked over time without physical site access. Maintenance scopes are specified with model-referenced locations, providing contractors with visual context that reduces rework and improves first-time-right delivery.

This approach shifts from transactional inspections (site visit → report → file) to continuous asset intelligence, where digital models become living condition records updated over time, supporting strategic renewal planning and optimised maintenance timing.