There are no dead ends, so you don’t have to go back on yourself.

We are continuing to work on the project as Design Guardian.. A complete mechanical and electrical engineering solution.Over the years, design and build of complex facilities has become piecemeal.

Contracts are split up between designers and contractors, and everyone tries to minimise or pass on risk.The trouble with this is that it destroys value for the client – it removes the big picture view, which is really important, especially on highly complex and intricate jobs like laboratories or some of the others I’ve described here.Some of the time, we find ourselves having to fix work that has been poorly conceived and carried out because of this way of working.

Systems that simply don’t work.We want to take on entire contracts in order to be able to deliver the complete solution that is best for our clients.

We will always be able to deliver the most value when we are engaged at the start of a project.. To learn more about our Design to Value approach to design and construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.

http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesClick the 'play button' above to watch the episode, or read our 5 Key Takeaways from this episode below.... 1.Is your work in construction automation leading us to the end of humanity?.

We don’t believe in the automation of everything.We believe that there is and will always be a place for human intervention – a place for people to apply their design, construction and engineering know-how – it’s just about taking the tedious repetitive tasks away from humans and getting them to do the bits they’re good at.

And that includes solving the parts that are not worth automating or that are hardest to automate.There are very obvious ethical dimensions here too, about automating humans out of work – or, conversely, about automating the function of humans within working environments.. We’re not charging headlong into some dystopic future.