2025

Long-term infrastructure is not delivered by systems or processes alone. It is delivered by people, guided by purpose and shaped by culture. Across Asia-Pacific, infrastructure programmes increasingly span decades. They involve multiple stakeholders, evolving public needs, and growing complexity around cost, risk, sustainability, and governance. In this environment, technical competence is essential — but it is not sufficient.

Our Architecture and Landscape team has embarked on an exciting journey by embracing a new suite of powerful tools enabled by artificial intelligence. Rather than replacing the creative spark that defines our work, these tools augment our creativity. This case study explores how we are leveraging AI to supercharge and optimise our design processes, foster innovation, and deliver better and faster results for our clients.

Our Architecture and Landscape team has embarked on an exciting journey by embracing a new suite of powerful tools enabled by artificial intelligence. Rather than replacing the creative spark that defines our work, these tools augment our creativity. This case study explores how we are leveraging AI to supercharge and optimise our design processes, foster innovation, and deliver better and faster results for our clients.

This article investigates how CFRP strengthening improves the fatigue performance of butt-welded high-strength steel plates (Q960, Q890, HG785) with surface cracks. Using experimental tests and finite element modelling, it shows that CFRP can significantly extend fatigue life, with effectiveness influenced by adhesive damage, initial crack size, and plate thickness. A fatigue life prediction model using Paris Law is also proposed.