WT is expanding its digital project controls to give asset owners near real-time visibility of cost, schedule and risk across multi‑billion‑dollar transport and civil infrastructure programmes, building on its quantity surveying and project advisory work. Integrated dashboards consolidate data from planning, procurement and delivery systems, replacing static monthly reports with live variance tracking and forecast out‑turn costs. For geotechnical and civil teams, this means earlier warning of scope creep, ground risk contingencies and interface clashes, tightening change control on complex major works.

Rocscience has launched Support Designer in Slide2, allowing engineers to specify a target factor of safety for slope or excavation models and automatically compute required support parameters such as bolt length, spacing, and capacity. The tool works with limit equilibrium analyses, adjusting support patterns to meet user-defined FoS rather than relying on manual trial‑and‑error iterations. This shift to target‑driven design could tighten geotechnical optimisation workflows, particularly for complex reinforced slopes, retaining structures, and underground excavations.

RadiXplore is using its Xplor platform to mine decades of underused historical exploration data, aiming to improve discovery rates as new greenfield finds become scarcer and drilling costs rise. Co-founders Russel Menezes and Teryne Young are applying machine learning and pattern-recognition workflows to legacy geochemical assays, drill logs and geophysical surveys to re‑rank targets without commissioning new campaigns. For geologists and explorers, the approach could shift budgets from broad regional drilling to data-driven infill and re-interpretation of existing tenements.