Industry · UK & GCCThe next five years of AECO information managementTwo years after the opening thesis, the next five years still belong to whoever can name the issued set, keep an AIM operations will query, and produce a golden thread or Gulf handover without assembling it in the week the letter arrives.8 Sept 2026 · 16 min read
Dawn on a compacted site haul road painted with five worn chainage segments: five timber posts along the verge hold an issued-set drawing pouch, a blank asset nameplate at a plant-room door, a closed retrieval pouch, a red fire-line wallet at a stair core, and a stamped Gulf completion pack in a crate, concrete frame in first light.
Research · AIWhat the thirty-nine per cent automation figure does and does not meanThirty-nine per cent of non-physical construction work ‘within theoretical reach of automation’ is a circulated ceiling, not a production forecast. Interrogate the limbs — non-physical, theoretical, automation — before you quote the number.23 Jul 2026 · 9 min read
A photocopied cream board-pack page on a dusty in-situ concrete slab, its unlabelled paper pie chart torn so a two-fifths wedge lies curled aside while the remaining pie stays pressed into the grit beside a faint yellow setting-out line.