We must understand every aspect, including workflows, performance, and sustainability.

Although some great engineers are coming out of universities, the curriculum has not adjusted quickly enough to emerging trends.Students are well-versed in chemical engineering skills; however, equipping them to work across boundaries within organisations, and across organisations to help change happen quickly, seems like a challenge for academia and industry.

Creating courses which span traditional academic bastions seems important, while developing graduates into dynamic, collaborative and imaginative problem solvers is the key challenge for business.. A huge issue that is often ignored, but fundamental to the truism of “reduce” being the most important step in sustainability, is the enormous overproduction, supply, and wastage of drugs in the global ecosystem..Some medicines are manufactured, prescribed, and sold which have little or no positive impact on human health.There is evidence that medicines commonly prescribed to women do not work.

There is a good deal of published research and perspectives on the oversupply of marginally beneficial, or even harmful, drugs..If we could remove this demand for drugs along with severely reducing the waste of wrongly sold, wrongly prescribed, never-taken and out-of-shelf-life waste, this would have a significant impact on the environmental footprint of the industry.. One of the points raised was the lack of general knowledge about the impact manufacturing and delivery of medicine has on the environment.

Greater public awareness may help to reduce some of this wastage through a reduction in demand..

Looking forward, there is a growing dilemma that new modalities may increase the diversity of solvents – acetonitrile, for example, may be of particular concern.However, it’s important to keep in mind the temporary nature of construction sites.

Once they’ve gone, we’ve lost the opportunity to use construction technology to gather that simple, valuable information that can tell us what’s really happening.It’s this data that enables us to do better designs, and better implement modules etc.

Of course, much of what we need to do is perfectly achievable with existing technology, but we can also be confident that as tech continues its rapid advancement, what we’re using a year from now will be significantly better than what we’re using today..The benefits of IoT in construction.