Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) may not yet be universally mandated by regulation, but across modern infrastructure projects, it is rapidly becoming impossible to ignore. As project complexity, urban density, and accountability increase, the industry is entering a grey zone where monitoring is not always explicitly required, yet increasingly expected in practice. From bridges and tunnels to metro systems and rehabilitation projects, agencies and consultants are embedding monitoring into execution workflows—not merely for compliance, but for risk management and real-time decision-making. In this conversation with Mr. Atul Bhobe, we discuss the real shift underway, which is not whether SHM will be used, but whether it will be implemented as a meaningful, decision-ready system or remain treated as a checkbox exercise.