– Guy Barlow , Global Commercial Director to innovate and our Connected Cost solution can be part of that ,” he maintains . The company gave the first UK presentation of its latest tech at London ’ s Project Controls Expo last November . While appreciating that the more exciting areas of development in the construction industry around BIM and AR can really aid efficiency , Barlow believes that a strong project controls solution underpinning innovation can help deliver long term . “ Risk management is not that sexy but managing money on these projects is pretty damn important !”

Warming to this theme , Barlow jokes : “ I remember when a billion dollars was a lot of money .” Now , with multi-billion projects commonplace Barlow looks to the east for the next wave of business . “ We ’ re seeing a huge spend in countries like China – they ’ re building something like 75 new airports in the next decade . They ’ re planning projects which will cost anything up to $ 90bn . Even in

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