Managing our risks to better explore our opportunities The engineering, transport and construction sectors are faced with some of the most critical challenges of our time. They include climate change and the digital revolution, as well as inflation, geopolitical instability and a skilled labour shortage. Major trends which guide SYSTRA’s strategic choices, encouraging it to more effectively manage its risks and explore the opportunities that our ever-changing sector offers. The digitalisation underway across the engineering sector has already resulted in increased efficiency and lower costs. The disruption that AI has initiated will pick up momentum, opening the door to increasing numbers of opportunities for companies to leverage their data and optimise their practices. For infrastructure to be sustainable, it’s not just Against a backdrop of economic volatility a question of it having a small environmental with growing financial pressures, optimising footprint. It’s a societal issue which determines production will be key. AI can serve as a how readily communities and regions accept powerful accelerator – maximising project major projects. An economic issue, with management performance and agility questions about the availability of resources, during the design phase, as well as optimising fluctuations in the cost of materials and operational efficiency and risk management. financing capabilities, as well as recycling materials and the circular economy. A political and regulatory issue, with growing numbers of national and regional plans aimed at encouraging the development of sustainable industry (Infrastructure Investment and Job Act in the United States, European Green Deal). And finally, an issue to do with competitivity and innovation, with terms of reference that are increasingly strict in this regard. 40 SYSTRA Where the future of mobility is taking shape