Martin Perks

Artificial intelligence is transforming the construction industry, from design and planning to project management and safety monitoring. Yet, as AI tools become more common on construction sites, managing their use responsibly and effectively becomes critical. The ISO 42001 (2023) AI Management System standard offers a clear framework to help construction professionals align their AI practices with best management principles. Understanding why this standard matters can help construction teams...

Who is next to walk? The most expensive asset in your multi billion pound programme is not the TBM or the digital twin. It is the collective intelligence of the people operating them. Yet the UK infrastructure sector is currently a sieve. We are not just losing people. We are losing the institutional memory required to deliver complex outcomes. At Black Pear Advisory Ltd, we see this brain drain as a structural failure to architect high integrity alliances that value human potential as much...

Blog 3 of 3 Over the course of this series, we have built a shared understanding: Diagnose: The construction industry is caught in a systemic productivity trap, adversarial norms that destroy value, erode trust, and consume the hidden working capital every organisation needs to improve. Design: A new legal and standards landscape, BA22, PA23, ECCTA23, BS 99001, BS 8670, has made the old system not merely inefficient, but actively high-risk for every party in the chain. Now we must deliver...