Utilities

The pressure point

An asset-heavy operations phase and ongoing regulatory reporting burden that dwarfs the relatively short build phase — most of a utility asset's life, and most of its data-quality risk, happens after handover.

Utility infrastructure — water, wastewater, power distribution, gas — is typically built once and operated for decades, with regulatory reporting obligations (rate cases, compliance filings, asset-condition reporting) that run continuously through that operating life. The handover data quality from the capital-project phase directly determines how well the operations team can meet those ongoing obligations, which makes the connection between delivery and operations more consequential here than in shorter-lived asset classes.