Driver Trett Digest Issue 25 - Flipbook - Page 5
DIGEST | ISSUE 25
Welcome
to the
Driver Trett Digest
It is always a pleasure and a privilege to write the introduction to an edition of the Digest, especially when I
can say I have contributed an article personally, giving me the moral high ground when I ask colleagues to
draft articles in the future.
This edition comes from our people in Singapore, the UK and the Middle East, and covers a wide range
of interesting topics. Les Harland takes us through the land of opportunity in Asia Pacific, George Dibble
covers the transition from construction to consulting, and David Brown discusses measured mile analysis
of productivity loss, and the use of AI chatbots.
Our guest contributor Toby Randle of Fenwick Elliott takes us back to school, whilst Abdullah Al Bash
gives an insight into BIM as a game changer for dispute resolution. Mark Blackmore further deals with the
Employer’s sword: contra charges?
We have written much in the past couple of years about the rise of technology in our industry, and our
experience on major projects has shown that when it fails, it creates major problems.
Our business has been working for some time with software experts to work out how to better and more
intuitively link planning software with project documents, BIM, design information and site records, with
the aim of eliminating the errors and contradictions, which can arise from a whole series of unconnected
programmes, or worse, connections between programmes that are deficient. My experiences in this
journey are set out in the article entitled, ’the giga cynic’, which reflects some of the problems I have seen,
and explores the need to develop more reliable integrated systems, if we are to try and avoid those issues
in the future.
We have yet to decide what to call the integrated software service, but it may be inspired by the fact that
Single Source of Truth (SSOT) architecture is at the core of this concept. Suggestions for the name are
welcome; we may even make this a competition, so please keep an eye out on our website and social media
channels.
I hope you enjoy this edition of the Digest and I look forward to meeting with some of you at our various
offices around the world in 2023.
Mark Wheeler
Driver Group CEO
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