One of the first lessons successful consultants learn is that clients don’t care about the time required to produce the design or report: they only care about the outcome, that it’s delivered by the promised time and for the agreed price. One of the stories in “The...
Businesses in Engineering and Construction tend not to describe themselves as “values-driven”. More often, they identify and pride themselves on their ability to get things done in the typically tough circumstances in which they operate. What value then, do values...
The inflexion point of an economy from ‘boom to bust’ is a time of heightened risk for engineering and construction, an industry characterised by high risk. Rapid shifts in supply and demand can turn a profitable business into a loss-making venture almost overnight....
A wide-ranging debate rages in engineering and construction, regarding the extent to which the industry must change to align more closely with contemporary business and broader societal expectations. The debate concerns a raft of challenges facing the industry, with...
A recent CEDA conference in Sydney headlined “Is Australia’s Big Infrastructure Build Delivering Value?” coincided with the 21 March 2022 release of Infrastructure Australia’s report on “A roadmap to a more productive and resilient future” A fair amount of the...
I’ll let you in on a secret: I’m finding it hard to remember what life was like prior to the onset of the dreaded “C” situation. Can you recall what was happening across Australia 5 years ago? I’ll summarise with help from my archives and more specifically a 15...
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