She expresses a desire to help create a better built environment and enthuses about the fact that both of these existing projects are being released on an open source basis.

In addition to our well-known problems with inefficient processes and insufficient output, the construction industry faces other, compounding issues - namely, a serious skills shortage and an aging workforce.As a result, it’s vitally important that we begin to encourage young people to come and join us.

We must highlight the fact that new technologies are possible in construction, and make sure that such technologies play a key role in how we design and construct..The construction industry should be a place where young digital natives can come and use their skills and passion for technology to do something meaningful to help tackle the climate crisis.However, if we don’t make this evident to them, they’ll go to work for pure technology companies instead.

Construction and the wider built environment will miss out.But it doesn’t have to be that way.

We took SEISMIC, our school design app, to a primary school in Hackney.

This digitally intuitive generation of Minecraft players already have many of the skills we need.Through carefully structured design processes, forward-looking energy strategies, and a willingness to experiment responsibly, Lincoln foresees a future in which data centres become a positive force for both technology and the planet..

Listen to the full conversation.I am hopeful as we come to the end of 2024, and there are a number of reasons why I am.I recently delivered one of my university modules on project management or strategy delivery.

The students, who are in their final year as undergraduates or doing postgraduate studies in engineering, to a person, held a passion for positive change.When asked to compare their personal values with that of a business, they expressed how they wished to use their knowledge and skills to make a difference in the world.