Review. Reset. Relaunch.
Arup Digital in Australasia
Whilst we’ve been flirting with the idea of digital in Arup for years (I’ve been here almost 9 now…) only recently have we decided to focus our efforts globally which brings about an exciting time on a number of levels.
Whilst we’re of course part of the broader Arup Digital family I see us here in Australasia as being a slightly different flavor, being a smaller team with a strong history of digital projects.
Now with the Arup mothership taking digital seriously and giving us a bit more room to play we have an opportunity not only to get better at what we already do, but also pivot into new areas as digital encroaches more holistically across the built environment in which we work.
This started last year with Greg joining us and then the new faces have continued to roll in with Jorke, Gel and Sam the most recent additions bringing not only breadth of new ideas and fresh thinking but incredible technical credentials to bolster the team.
So where are we heading? We’re not sure. But we do know that we can’t continue to operate as a typical team in an engineering consultancy.
Whilst the work we do benefits the same people and organisations as that of our Arup colleagues, and we hold the same core values, we need to go about it in a very different way as the rules of technology and the skills needed to master it are more fluid than the rules of building or highway engineering (from my naive ivory tower anyway).
Whilst we’re not (yet…?) a full on software team and the agile approach in our experience doesn’t work rigidly in a consulting environment we will be trying to bring these worlds together. I’d be glad to chat about this, what works and what doesn’t with people, and meeting Ben Richardson at PWC Shipyards recently gave us some great insight into making it work.
We’ll be trying our best to keep this blog, and site generally, up to date with everything that we’re up to including projects, people, challenges we’re facing and problems we’ve solved.
As the team and what we do continues to evolve please don’t hesitate to get in touch, we’re always interested in chatting about what we do and how we do it. We also realise we can’t do all of this ourselves, and have a wide network of partners and collaborators we love working with. So get in touch.
