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Therefore, the approach is to decide on a single concept to integrate the engineering structurally in an EPCM type contract and to focus purely on deliverables..

In some respects they’re the easy ones, because many of them are already manufacturing products.They’re familiar with manufacturing processes and, in some cases, are already supplying other industries and familiar with other mindsets and cultures.

They’ll easily adapt to this future delivery model.. As the SMEs grow and invest in their capabilities, we’ll see more drive from that supply chain side because of the confidence they’ll have in the pipeline, and the opportunity to be secure in that investment.However, one challenge we do face is that SMEs can be hard to reach because they’re often so busy doing their jobs that they don’t necessarily have time to look at these bigger changes.One reason government funding and R&D programmes are so important is because these things enable a de-risked environment whereby SMEs can work and learn the evolving operating and delivery systems..

TIP 2: Will there be a future mandate?.One of the most intriguing parts of Transforming Infrastructure Performance: Roadmap to 2030, is the potential for a government mandate within the next couple of years.

The last big mandate was BIM, and it had a transformative impact.

There’s enormous potential here, but the industry needs to take some time to work out what the terms of such a mandate might be, in order to ensure it manifests as something helpful for everyone..What this really highlights though, is that while our own personal behaviour does contribute to the climate crisis, it’s actually the much larger macroeconomy that’s driving very large amounts of the emissions..

Although the reality of this situation is actually invisible to most people, it’s imperative that we start doing more than we’re currently doing.Nuclear power could become a key part of our decarbonisation strategy, and we’re starting to see an interesting shift take place.

The traditional, anti-nuclear left is beginning to become marginalised.In fact, Gogan says that the representation from nuclear, and the appetite for these new nuclear, advanced heat technologies, was strong at COP26.