A broader term than BIM, covering the use of digital data and processes across a project's engineering, not just its building information model. Common in infrastructure and government contexts (especially Australia, the UK, and increasingly used alongside BIM in buildings too), Digital Engineering treats the model as just one part of a wider digital ecosystem that includes GIS, sensor data, simulation, and analytics. In practice, most organizations use "Digital Engineering" and "BIM" close to interchangeably, with DE emphasizing the engineering-data pipeline over the modeling software.