Support for engineering reduces risk of harm
Engineering X finds a direct link between a country’s support of its engineering skills and reduced risk in the engineered environment.
Using data from 115 geographies, Engineering X highlights the importance of collaboration between engineers, government, industry, investors and others to tackle global challenges safely and effectively, says Engineering X.
It is planning a series of regional and sector-specific workshops to support decision-makers to develop interventions that improve engineering capability.
The Global Engineering Capability Review (GECR) 2025 has been produced by a collaboration founded by the Royal Academy of Engineering and Lloyd's Register Foundation, with the support of S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Access to engineering expertise and innovation is also critical to addressing global challenges, such as climate change and sustainable growth, claims the report. It states that trillions more dollars of infrastructure investment will be needed annually for the world to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
The collaboration also will publish five ‘spotlights’ to contextualise data, demonstrating the importance of collaboration and partnerships between all actors from government to industry in specific areas of interest: the use of AI, the sustainable energy transition, safe and sustainable mining, a safer end-of-life for engineering infrastructure and a culture of continuous learning.
Professor Jarka Glassey FREng, Chair of the Engineering X Skills for Safety programme, says, 'Now more than ever, individual countries need to be able to know if they are nurturing the appropriate engineering skills and shaping relevant policies to address current and future challenges. The GECR provides an evidence-based tool to support these decisions, and we hope that improvements in global data collection will mean that future reviews will be able to offer helpful insight on engineering capability in even more geographies.'
