Existing coal plants vary widely.
Construction Technology is a big category.It includes the technology used to track the movements of a tower crane as well as highly complex design authoring software.
It attempts to make existing tasks easier, but not necessarily change the underlying nature of those tasks.. Part of our endeavour is to bring together all sorts of discrete technologies and products, whose aim is to solve discrete problems.It’s also about addressing the design process – and the way we design – as a whole, to create a different end product.Within the design process, people shouldn’t just be seen as resources who are expected to deliver something, they should be allowed to think more broadly about the problems they’re addressing.
And design automation technology should enable that – it should create possibility, not define it.. We work directly with clients to create technology that addresses their business needs and activities – not necessarily just the needs of architects and designers.This direct client contact has given us the opportunity to create a distinct identity as a team, and a distinct position within the industry.
It also required us to develop skills that internal-facing teams don’t need.
Having our own clients presents us with a range of questions that we have to answer, and it requires a particular set of capabilities.This is a multimodal problem to solve; even though we had suppliers, manufacturers, laboratories, regulators, waste management, academia and design engineers in the room, we accepted not everybody was represented who needs to be.
To move more quickly continued multi-agency conversations and collaborations are needed.. Collaborative problem solving on this scale requires the right skills.Although some great engineers are coming out of universities, the curriculum has not adjusted quickly enough to emerging trends.
Students are well-versed in chemical engineering skills; however, equipping them to work across boundaries within organisations, and across organisations to help change happen quickly, seems like a challenge for academia and industry.Creating courses which span traditional academic bastions seems important, while developing graduates into dynamic, collaborative and imaginative problem solvers is the key challenge for business.. A huge issue that is often ignored, but fundamental to the truism of “reduce” being the most important step in sustainability, is the enormous overproduction, supply, and wastage of drugs in the global ecosystem..
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