Construction industry firms and professionals working globally will find opportunities in markets that are fast-developing and changing over the next two decades, but they must prepare now for challenges that clients have not yet fully expressed or even recognized, executives told attendees at ENR’s Global Construction Summit in New York City on Sept. 10.
Uwe Krueger, CEO of U.K. design firm Atkins, noted how technology, particularly digital engineering, can meet customer demand and industry’s need to boost innovation and competitiveness. Terming firms “slow to innovate” and citing examples of “stunning incompetence” in project management, he called on the industry “to hold up a mirror to itself.”