Tony Mulhall
Associate Director
RICS
United Kingdom

Biography
Tony Mulhall is an Associate Director at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), a professional body with over 100,000 members working internationally in the areas of land, property and construction. He is a Chartered Surveyor and Town Planner and has worked in a wide range of areas of planning and property in both the public and private sectors. In his current role he is responsible for the production of a portfolio of knowledge and guidance for practitioners in the planning and development sector. He is actively involved in promoting an understanding of development economics within the planning system and has given evidence to the UK House of Commons Select Committee on Town Centre Planning Policy. He represents RICS in a number of bodies including the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP), and the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). He is Chair of the Inter-Institutional Flood Group which brings together the main professional bodies in the built environment in the UK engaged with flood risk. He has also been engaged as an adviser to the United Kingdom India Business Council in connection with programmes being developed in India and as an adviser to UK Department for International Development. He has given occasional lectures at a number of universities including Cardiff University, London School of Economics, Oxford University, Nottingham Trent University, University College London.

Abstract
Smart Cities/Smart Buildings – A Tale of Two Scales!

The UK regards the ‘smart’ agenda as essential to delivering competitive advantage in the global economy. It also sees the development of expertise in this area as highly transformative in terms of generating new services and new expertise for citizens as well as creating a new economy. Two recent reports in the UK respond to the challenges and opportunities of moving towards ‘smart’ urban environments at distinctly different scales. At the level of the city, five key areas are identified where planning and development processes can support smart city aspirations. At the level of the building the role of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in combination with the internet of things and advanced data analytics is advocated as a way of changing how buildings and infrastructure are procured. Although these reports address different scales their aims are closely connected. They are about enabling procurement of new buildings and infrastructure more effectively and about making better use of the existing stock of assets in the service of the citizen.