Built Environment Technology Poll

2024 Challenges

With so many and the sheer variety of the pressures across the Built Environment we talked to other professionals and chose a few that could headline. Every organisation is different and sharing of ideas is useful, if you can get it into one main place (one of the additional poll feedbacks is about centralised information hubs). After Covid-19 and the back to work (or not) demands it made on us, employee engagement and labour continue to be impacted. In-house coffee shops, or more hybrid working arrangements dominate the column inches about what employees want, but often it is far simpler, and more work focused tools are what is required. It feels like compliance and the management of it was already tricky (especially in large or multi-site organisations) and as we now rightly tackle climate change, net zero and ESG, the added complexity lends itself to a more digitalised approach. Costs of course remain the obvious one, from labour and materials to energy, businesses are experiencing painful rises across the board. Technology such as solar panels can help to reduce costs over time whilst requiring significant investment, but elimination of wasted energy can be significant though and the measures could be considerably less cost! You voted, we compiled…………..