Utilisation

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION Utilisation Why digital transformation means utilisation can no longer be the key metric for engineering consultancies. Engineering consultancy is a strange business. We have high fixed costs in terms of staff salaries, so our day-to-day driver...

Are you going to be replaced by a robot or a Superuser?

NEWS Are you going to be replaced by a robot or a Superuser? The robots are coming.”Yeah, yeah, John. We’ve heard it before. We read that article a few years back about the Oxford academics [1] who said that there was an 81% probability of pastry chefs...

Why adaptivity is the key to digital twins

NEWS Why adaptivity is the key to digital twins Let’s start with a “what”. According to Abdulmotaleb El Saddik’s [1]: “Digital twins are replications of living as well as nonliving entities that enable data to be seamlessly transmitted...

The future’s bright: the future’s horizontal

NEWS The future’s bright: the future’s horizontal What kind of crazy do we do in construction? Our own kind, that’s for sure. No other industry would throw its product away mid way through, and get someone else to start again. But that’s all...