In the last few years strong business drivers for improving power distribution design productivity including an aging and shrinking workforce, an accelerating transition to the smart grid and a rapidly changing utility business model have […]
At the Fall BIMForum/BuildCon conference in Dallas two presentations about actual prefabrication experience – for data centres and for large automotive plants – both mentioned shortage of skilled labour as an important motivation for turning […]
At GeoAlberta 2015 Susan Ancel of EPCOR, a diversified water and electric power utility headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta described a unique solution to the problem of knowledge transfer from older, experienced to new, younger employees. […]
I’ve blogged many times about the aging workforce challenge facing many industries. At the SPAR International conference Wayne Rodieck of Anadarko Petroleum outlined what this means to the oil and gas industry and how he […]
I have blogged extensively over the past few years about some of the workforce challenges that utilities especially in the developed economies are facing. These are often related to the aging workforce and in some […]
At the Second Annual Summit on Data Analytics for Utilities in Toronto, Lincoln Frost-Hunt, Director of Enterprise IT at Hydro One, gave a riveting presentation on how one utility has evolved from a company that […]
At the Space-Time Insight annual SI World conference this year, Dave Haak of Accenture gave a riveting overview of the research that Accenture has conducted on smart grid deployment including a survey of utility executives […]
I have blogged about the shrinking workforce in countries around the world like Japan and Germany, where there have been declining populations. The shrinking workforce is acting as a brake on the German economy. The […]