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...
Can you remember the last time you went out for dinner, say for a big night out at a fancy restaurant? Picture you and your partner, arriving at the front door of the restaurant in an Uber (sitting in a police RBT line-up, panicking about losing your drivers’ licence...
The late 20th Century seems a very long time ago when I successfully applied for my first job as a Cadet Engineer with the NSW State Rail Authority (actually it was in 1985). I think back with quite some fondness about the varied experiences I had, initially working...
For well over a decade from my early teens, I played Saturday afternoon club tennis, mostly at Cowells Lane Reserve in Ermington and the North Parramatta courts in competitions managed by the Parramatta-Granville and Districts Hardcourt Tennis Association. As a...
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....
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