World Green Building Week 2025: Digital Boldness

It’s World Green Building Week, and this year’s theme- Be Bold on Buildings- encourages us to consider what being bold stands for in the built environment.  

Bold can be expressive and striking, manifested through bright colours, brave designs, or large-scale architectural projects, like the KGX1 Google London HQ. 

But being bold isn’t limited to physical design. It also lies in how we use technology to achieve better outcomes. Being bold today means rethinking the digital foundations of our industry, embedding data and intelligence into every stage of a building’s life. 

A Digital Angle 

Sustainable buildings are no longer a “nice to have”, they are one of the smartest strategies for businesses facing climate risks and social responsibilities. Yet delivering on this potential requires more than ambition. It requires systems that can measure, manage, and improve performance across the whole life of a building. 

It’s all down to digitisation.  

Technology provides the infrastructure for the sustainability agenda: without it, bold design intentions cannot translate into bold outcomes. 

Digital modelling creates the bridge between planning and construction, ensuring that what is designed can be delivered as intended. By embedding accuracy and coordination into the process, digital tools reduce the gap between vision and reality. They also bring clarity across the supply chain, enabling teams to choose lower-impact materials and evidence responsible decisions. And with early clash detection, waste is avoided before it occurs, saving both carbon and cost.  

Far from being a technical add-on, digital twins are becoming the fabric of green building design. They are dynamic, data-driven replicas that empower companies to optimise building performance in real-time, reshaping our understanding of sustainability. 

The World Green Building Council highlights that being bold on buildings means designing with whole life carbon in mind, preparing for future risks, and creating healthy spaces that support people and communities. Digital processes are central to all of these ambitions: 

Whole life carbon: Digital twins track embodied and operational impacts, making it possible to design for lower emissions across a building’s entire lifespan. 

Efficiency: Coordinated data reduces duplication and error, streamlining delivery while cutting waste and cost. 

Resilience: Data-rich models allow buildings to be stress-tested for climate risks and adapted to changing conditions. 

Wellbeing: Digital workflows enable the creation of healthier, more efficient environments, with benefits for morale, productivity, and retention. 

In each case, the boldness lies in adopting these tools early and consistently, shifting away from digital as a compliance exercise and towards digital as an enabler of meaningful, measurable sustainability. 

Enabling Action 

At BIM Technologies, we are bold through digitisation. We provide tailored digital services that bridge the gap between design intent and construction delivery. By enabling clearer collaboration, accurate data sharing, and early clash detection, we help project teams avoid project-hindering errors and work more efficiently. By helping architects, contractors, and clients to adopt data-rich models, enhanced workflows and digital twins, we make it possible for sustainable strategies to move from aspiration to implementation. 

Digital processes provide the insight and accountability needed to design low-carbon buildings. To build greener, smarter, and fairer, we must first build digitally. This World Green Building Week is a reminder that bold action starts with the choices we make today.