Engineering is still king
95% agree high-quality engineering is the most important factor in project success. And there are signs of progress: significant design rework fell from 52% to 45%.
Less rework. More projects abandoned.
Engineering is improving, with fewer designs requiring significant revision. Yet attrition is rising, suggesting projects are increasingly being lost to changing permitting, grid, land, and economic conditions — not design quality.
Rework is becoming a responsiveness challenge
As design accuracy becomes a baseline expectation, the challenge is shifting from getting a design right to adapting it quickly when project conditions change. The question is no longer: “How do we get the design right the first time?”, but “How quickly can we adapt a good design when project conditions change?”
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