Solving Structural Engineering Challenges
When I interview engineers applying for chartered status in our institution, Engineers Australia, I’m interested to learn their technical prowess, and their ability to understand and solve a problem in the best way practical for the situation. But the assessor is much more interested in two key issues – Ethics…
The world is changing. Faster and more suddenly than most of us expected. Forget COVID-19, it was changing before then. The ONLY constant is change! Many of us have moved our meetings online. Even after lockdown, we see productivity in staying behind the computer screen and there are fewer face-to-face…
November 1 marks the official start of the Australian tropical cyclone season, and although Mother Nature is wreaking havoc in Vietnam and The Philippines, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) currently advise there are no indications of tropical cyclone activity developing in the Australian region in the next few weeks. So…
People often ask me how I get the time to write my blogs. Well it’s a fact, we all have “the time”. Oprah, Elon Musk, you, me, and some random lazy couch potato, all have 24 hours each day. No more, no less. Bottom line – Pareto’s principle applies EVERYWHERE….