We were honoured to have a longstanding friend and supporter of the Society, Dr Sean Brady, address members and guests at our mid-week evening webinar on Wednesday 20 April. Dr Brady’s talk was titled “Project Success or Failure – What Complexity Theory Can Tell Us About Risk in Construction.

He addressed an audience of over 30 delegates on the multidisciplinary scientific approach of adopting collective or system-wide perspectives in investigating and understanding so-called “Complex Systems” such as traffic, climate or ecology, which comprise a multitude of different interacting elements and whose behavior is intrinsically difficult to model. Dr Brady also discussed how Complexity Theory might present a valuable alternative way of thinking in the context of setting up, delivering and managing risk on construction projects, and its relative strengths and weaknesses as a tool for prospective prediction of the future vs. retrospective understanding of the true causes of past events.

Click HERE to view the webinar photos. 

Contributed by:

Toh Chen Han – Immediate Past Chairman, Society of Construction Law (Singapore); Partner, Pinsent Masons MPillay LLP