Construction Technology is a big category.

To move more quickly continued multi-agency conversations and collaborations are needed.. Collaborative problem solving on this scale requires the right skills.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..As LoRaWAN is very long-range, it enables construction sites to be quite remote, representing great potential for Australia where it’s not unusual to travel five to ten hours to a site.

Europe is already covered in LoRaWAN with something like 10,000 gateways across Europe, over 1,000 in Australia, and around 800 in the U.S. One barrier which presents for the latter, is that their cellular network, which runs across states, makes it difficult to talk between networks.As such, we need to remove that network issue from IoT construction.

In the case of LoRaWAN, private networks can be established, in addition to the public ones.Lamont believes these private networks are where we’ll see real genesis and IoT technology emerging in construction.