New competition, digitization and compliance issues are reshaping the $6.8-trillion global construction market, forcing engineers to learn quickly how to pick and deliver projects of ever-increasing complexity. Firms new to the global stage are finding they have little time to play catch-up.
"We are in a global race. We're in a race to the future," said Roger Flanagan, a professor at the University of Reading, England, who gave a keynote address at this year's ENR+Dodge Global Construction Summit.