A report by the U.K.-based Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) proposes that construction teams utilize a new delivery method, called Systems Approach to Infrastructure Delivery (SAID), in order to more successfully deliver today’s increasingly complex infrastructure projects. Published in December, the report—based on 30 interviews with “project practitioners” from the infrastructure, aerospace, defense, oil and gas and technology sectors—advocates that SAID’s emphasis on “systems thinking, systems engineering and systems integration” will improve project performance, according to ICE.
Conversely, projects run as “exercises in civil engineering excellence are at a higher risk of losing focus on outcomes and failing to allocate enough resources to their systems integration challenges,” the ICE report claims.