Desk Study Reports have traditionally been a long, manual process: gather background data, pull maps, describe geology, add observations, draft conclusions, and finally write client recommendations. Each step takes time – often 3-5 hours per report, multiplied across dozens of reports per year. Turns a selection of the site on…

Client Context A mid-sized engineering consultancy needed to issue digitally signed PDFs for government and private sector projects. Signing wasn’t just a stamp – it required encrypted, certificate-backed signatures to prove authenticity and prevent tampering. The process was eating up time, distracting staff, and delaying submissions. The Challenge The Solution…

Client Context A major engineering consultancy I worked at struggled with drawing submissions. Their engineers spent late nights preparing technical details, only to have drawings rejected by clients for small administrative errors: wrong revision numbers, incorrect dates, or mismatched file names. Document controllers were tied up in repetitive checks, often…

Client Context Working with contractors on large infrastructure projects in the UK and Australia, the client needed a better way to manage health, safety, environmental and security risks. Traditional spreadsheets weren’t cutting it – too slow, too siloed, too easy to miss things. The Challenge The Solution I built an…

Summary When I first encountered the everyday frustrations of managing thousands of evolving project drawings, I knew that efficiency wasn’t a luxury – it was a necessity. Partnering with Reci Engineering, a dedicated 20-person structural firm, I crafted a custom Python automation solution that now saves them over 104 admin…