The construction and infrastructure sectors do not need a single breakthrough to fix productivity. They need momentum. Hundreds of small, practical improvements that compound over time. Saving five minutes per person per week. Removing a recurring defect. Automating a repeatable decision. Each one feels incremental. Together, they shift performance in a meaningful way. The maths is simple. A sustained 1% annual productivity improvement can materially close the projected gap.

Heavily regulated industries like construction, mining, advanced manufacturing, or even medical and defence. Aren’t really risk adverse, they live in the world of even a very low probability negative outcome might have extremely high consequences. For example, if the Sydney Harbour Bridge fell over tomorrow, that would cause some serious disruptions around Sydney. That would be unlikely, yes, it would have extremely high consequences though if it did happen though!!! So what

The current trajectory of robotics seems to be crazy at best, perhaps just fundamentally wrong! We are being constantly bombarded with backflipping robots, kung-fu robots, & my favourite, dancing robots in beautifully choreographed, but essentially meaningless, theatre on our social feeds. But why? There are real needs. Take construction for instance. There is a widely identified need to boost productivity in this massive $12 trillion sector! It is widely reported that the in

A $12 trillion global industry Despite being a roughly $12 trillion global industry, construction productivity has barely moved. Since 2000, productivity has improved by around 10% in total. Over the same period, manufacturing has improved by closer to 90%. At the same time, demand for infrastructure, housing, and energy transition assets continues to accelerate. The result is not a mild inefficiency. It is a structural gap. McKinsey & Company estimates that, at current traje

Ahh! The wildly misleading innovation theatre. Be WARNED! It makes sense though, what is exciting & motivating in the approvals office might not be so great in our business as usual (BAU)… or as I sharply say, what looks good on a LinkedIn feed often is straight out silly on a site! My go to example is the back-flipping robot that standing on a scaffold & is simultaneously throwing a tool kit at a human co-worker (seriously, google it, you’ll find the video from a reputable r

There is a deep disconnect between the emerging tech shepherds & those that could benefit from the use of the emerging tech that runs deep in the BAU of our heavy industries. The harsh (and all to often impossible for the office folk to accept) reality is (and strap in for a controversial point): → Not every computer on a site or in a plant is even connected. In fact, There are many plants that generate $300M+ annually that I have first hand been to that simply do NOT have a