Reflections on
disruption and
cultural shift
Tim Wark
Digital Director, AECOM
The new normal:
The mobile knowledge worker
Data: The new oil
S&P 500 Top 10 Stocks
1980
2005
2022
1
IBM
General Electric
Apple
2
AT&T
Exxon Mobil
Microsoft
3
Exxon Mobil
Microsoft
Amazon
4
Standard Oil of Indiana
Citigroup
Tesla
5
Schlumberger
Proctor & Gamble
Alphabet (Google)
6
Shell
Wal Mart
Berkshire Hathaway
7
Mobil Oil
Bank of America
UnitedHealth Group
8
Standard Oil of California
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson
9
Atlantic Richfield
AIG
Exxon Mobil
10
General Electric
Pfizer
JPMorgan Chase
Current global challenges driving innovation
Population
growth
and urbanization
Safe, secure and
resilient
infrastructure
Funding &
investment
decisions
Sustainability and
environmental
impact
Speed of major
projects
How to increase
opportunity, improve
services and
enhance the quality of
people's lives.
How to strengthen
cybersecurity and
protect against natural
and human disasters.
How to optimise
infrastructure decisions
by managing
public/private sector
collaboration and
effective community
engagement.
How to ensure
sustainably,
tackling climate change
by mitigating impacts.
How to drive
productivity and
efficiency across the
major project
lifecycle.
Business as usual…
1980
1000s of
Pencil Strokes
2000
1000s of
Mouse Clicks
2020
1000s of
Mouse Clicks
2022
100s of
Parameters
Automated Design
Automated design (computational, parametric or generative design) provides our teams with a
smart way to generate and analyse multiple design options in a fast, effective and iterative way.
Melbourne Park
Melbourne, Victoria
Client:
Projects Victoria
Melbourne Park is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment precinct,
hosting globally significant events such as the Australian Open.
Automated design
Perth Children’s Hospital
Footbridge
Perth, Western Australia
Client:
Perth Children’s Hospital
Funded by the hospital foundation, the Perth Children’s Hospital
commissioned the construction of the “Kids Bridge”, to provide safe
access from the hospital to Kings Park. At a cost of $6.3M, the
pedestrian bridge provides patients and their families an opportunity
to escape the rigours of the hospital environment through the
colourful and fantastical passageway all while avoiding the busy
street crossing below.
Solution:
With only 60 hours to deliver the first model to the client, the team
created the initial ‘3d mesh’ for the bridge which included almost
2,000 vertical slats in several digital design tools. The final project
model was then fed through a visualisation software to enable quick
renderings to be produced.
Sustainable
Legacies
Infrastructure is a major source of
carbon emissions, both embodied
and operational. For the lower
emissions future we need, our
industry needs to radically rethink
how infrastructure is planned,
delivered and managed.