Innovation in construction: closing the execution gap for project engineers
Reviewed by Tom Sullivan

First reported on New Civil Engineer
30 Second Briefing
Innovation in construction is portrayed as less about novel technology and more about closing the execution gap between leadership’s “we want innovation” rhetoric and project teams’ day‑to‑day delivery constraints. Examples include contractors struggling to move from pilot trials of digital twins and 4D BIM on single bridge or station jobs to portfolio‑wide deployment, and clients not adapting NEC contract risk allocations to support offsite manufacture or low‑carbon concrete. For engineers, the message is to focus on procurement models, incentives and site workflows that let proven tools scale beyond isolated demonstrations.
Technical Brief
- Innovation is treated as a management and procurement problem, not a shortage of available tools.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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