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Momentum builds for Leapfrog Works Seequent, a world leader in visual data
science, and Mott MacDonald have
been shortlisted in the British Construction
Industry Awards for Digital Initiative
of the Year. Innovating together
the companies delivered a digital, 3D
geological modelling solution on the
Upper Chelburn Impounding Reservoir
in the UK, which is owned and operated
by United Utilities.
Seequent’s general manager of civil
and environmental Daniel Wallace,
says: “We’re delighted to be recognised
for digital transformation alongside
Mott MacDonald in these prestigious
awards. Our collective goal from
the outset was to transform the shape
of ground and civil engineering. This is
the second industry acknowledgement
in as many months as we were also
shortlisted for the Technical Innovation
Award in this year’s Ground Engineering
Awards.”
Seequent developed Leapfrog Works, a
3D subsurface modelling solution specifically
designed for the civil engineering
and environmental industries, to
better connect the geology to the engineering
design and support the cultural
shift towards digitisation and collaborative
working.
Launched in February, Leapfrog Works
improves the understanding, visualisation
and communication of ground
conditions in infrastructure and groundwater
projects to help clients reduce
risk and keep projects on time and on
budget. The revolutionary solution has
caught the attention of the civil engineering,
ground engineering and environmental
industries and is gathering
momentum with strong user uptake.
“Leapfrog Works transforms the way
engineers and geotechnical engineers
work on projects to deliver better project
outcomes for clients,” says Wallace.
“In many ways ‘digital transformation’
can be as much about organisational
transformation, as it’s the impact it has
on the individuals that do the work.”
Leapfrog Works has been adopted
business-wide by Mott MacDonald’s
global geotechnics practice. The company
has used the software on a wide
range of projects to pioneer a new way
of working in the industry, including major
global tunnelling, construction and
transportation projects, reservoirs, rock
cavern networks in Singapore, and 3D
visualisations of a proposed airport in
Indonesia.
The winners of the British Construction
Industry Awards, the most prestigious
awards in the built environment sector,
will be announced on October 10 in
London.
Chamber
welcomes
Holidays Act
review
The Canterbury Employers’
Chamber of Commerce has
welcomed the announcement
by the Government of a tripartite
review of the Holidays Act 2003
says chief executive Leeann
Watson.
The existing Act, and the way
it calculates entitlements,
is problematic in today’s
environment, according to
Watson, of variable work patterns.
She says it was conceived with a
traditional five-day working week
as the model, and news it is to be
reviewed in extremely positive.
"It has created uncertainty around
holiday entitlements because the
calculations involved do not cope
with the complexities of modern
ways of working," says Watson.
"There has also been confusion
around how relevant daily pay is
worked out, and how you decide
if a holiday would otherwise have
been an ordinary work day."
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