CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING
The drawing didn't have the answer. Your team found one.
Unusual ground conditions. Materials that wouldn't perform as specified. An installation method standard practice couldn't handle. If your team has worked through problems like these, you've very likely already done qualifying R&D.
WHAT QUALIFIES
Resolving genuine technological uncertainty around materials, structural or civil solutions, installation methods, ground conditions, surfacing systems, drainage, plant and process integration, durability, performance tolerances, or adapting techniques where the established method won't achieve the required result.
THE WORK THIS COVERS
Developing a modified surfacing or material specification for unusual loading or environmental constraints
Designing or adapting an installation methodology where access, ground conditions or interface tolerances made the standard method unsuitable
Testing alternative materials or process sequences to achieve required durability or performance
THE OBJECTION WE HEAR MOST
"We're contractors. We just build what's on the drawing."
It's usually wrong. R&D sits in the technical problem-solving that happens when the standard solution doesn't work. We speak the language: Contracts Managers, Quantity Surveyors, Project Managers, Site Managers, Civil Engineers, Design Managers, Technical Managers, Commercial Managers — we know what you actually mean.