Got AI, and don’t know what to do with it?
We are having a lot of conversations with our clients, business owners, consultants and contractors recently about what to use AI for. Some have been given access to Copilot, others have built in-house AI trained on their own datasets (props to these guys!). But a vast majority don’t know where to start.
Everyone agrees we need to do better. But where do we start?
In our conversations with industry peers, we’re hearing the same thing again and again: “Yes, sustainability matters, but we don’t know where to begin.”
· Is it the complexity of the issue?
· A lack of clear guidance?
· Or just not knowing if the effort will be worth it?
Change Management v. Project Management
We have been seeing a lot of debate about Change Management versus Project Management recently, with some commentators suggesting these are two entirely separate disciplines …
How to shape a more sustainable future
Find out how to shape a more sustainable future or project
Heatherwick’s call to action
Thomas Heatherwick's call to action on humanising construction and buildings https://humanise.org/
The Project Profession
… perhaps 2025 could be the year that this situation begins to change, and that recognition of the value of “the Project Profession” begins to seep into the thinking of procuring bodies throughout the Hong Kong (and wider, regional) construction industry. Clients, employ a project professional to lead your next project, and see the difference it will make!
Lecturing on Risk Management
Mark has spent his Friday nights for the last two months delivering a series of 2-to-3-hour lectures at Hong Kong University, on many aspects of Risk Management in Construction to the students working towards a Masters in Construction Project Management.
Professionalism in Project Management
It was really encouraging to have Prof (Dr) Adam Boddison OBE visit Hong Kong this week, delivering a positive message about the Association for Project Management (finally) pursuing an ambition to be truly global. Since its establishment as a branch in 1991, the GBA Network has been active in promoting professionalism in project management in the region. With a renewed impetus, we look forward to making greater progress towards the recognition that the project profession truly deserves.
Technology versus Behaviour in site safety
We spend a lot of time and resource these days on the promotion of technology on HK’s construction sites. Much of this is geared towards productivity, but increasingly it is focussed on worker safety.
Modular construction
There are many parallels with this NYT article as HK pushes to increase the adoption of MiC, from regulation, through designing beautiful modular homes, to production-at-scale.
West Kowloon Terminus topside
Having been a PM at MTR for the design and construction of the West Kowloon Terminus, the topside development above was at the time somewhat undefined. I was at WKT a couple of weeks ago, and it is great to see the topside development now taking shape. Looking forward to exploring it on completion.
Can designers really influence construction productivity?
Can designers really influence construction productivity?
WKCD Integrated Basement Progress
Having been a PM at MTR for the design and construction of the West Kowloon Terminus basements, it is exciting to see that WKCDA are making progress on the enhanced design for the IB & UR across the undeveloped phases of the site.
Data quality
I had a very interesting discussion over the CNY holiday, with a friend who is not in the construction industry, about data quality and how this is fundamental as we all hurtle towards our AI-enabled futures.
I started to wonder what we could do to change our ways of working to enable easier data capture and collation on construction projects, which seems a long way off for many in our industry, before we can even begin to assure our data quality. That's why we need to make data and data management a key component of our project planning. Now.
Gowan Projects can help you achieve this on your projects. Get in touch and let's discuss how.
PMI Infinity
It has been interesting to take part in the testing of PMIs' Infinity and comparing against ChatGPT in the structured trial. Currently non-PMI members can use PMI Infinity, give it a try at https://infinity.pmi.org/