Future Ready

Future Ready is our program designed to deal with complex challenges facing our infrastructure, buildings and cities. We analyze future trends and provide insightful advices to build a better future.

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What is Future Ready

With our Future Ready program, we are committed to finding sustainable solutions to the challenges the future will bring. Our research and analysis on key trends in climate change, society, technology and resources help us to see the future more clearly and challenge our teams to advise our clients on solutions that are both ready for today and the years to come.

Future Ready Healthcare

The next generation of healthcare buildings will be very different from the hospitals, clinics and GP surgeries we are familiar with today.

How is healthcare changing?

New Mobility Pilots Future Aviation

Aviation is changing in light of developments related to the automated, connected, electric and shared aspects of New Mobility.

Read the New Mobility Now Aviation Addendum

Insights

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January 2020 | 4 minutes

Profile: The elderly couple living in a flood-prone area

United Kingdom
Feature
Resources , Climate
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October 2019 | 3 minutes

What customer experience lessons can the road and retail industries share?

United Kingdom
Blog
Mobility
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August 2019 | 3 minutes

How technology is improving road workers’ health and wellbeing

United Kingdom
Blog
Mobility
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August 2019 | 2 minutes

How road designers are turning Future Ready ideas into reality

United Kingdom
Blog
Mobility
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June 2019

What leadership means to me, by Paul Unwin

United Kingdom
Blog
Society , Mobility , Resilience
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April 2019

Building resilience to ensure highways are Future Ready

United Kingdom
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Mobility , Technology , Resilience

April 2019 | 3 minutes

Five Components of the Modular Future

Blog
Places
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September 2018 | 3:30 minutes

The Relationship Between Connected/Automated Vehicles and Smart Cities

United States
Blog
Mobility , Society , Technology

September 2018 | 4 minutes

WSP’s partnership with Costco: four building blocks DE

Canada
Feature

Airports Become Digital Ecosystems

Technology , Resilience

Climate

How will your project, infrastructure, or community hold up against the effects of global warming, flooding and rising sea levels, and more disruptive storms? These climate impacts will test our built environment as never before.

Read our Climate Insights

Society

The way we move around our cities, the way we design our neighbourhoods, and the way we plan infrastructure are all impacted by changes in social and cultural norms.  Can we build resilient and smart cities that take these changes into account?

Read our Society Insights

Technology

The speed of technological advancement has no historical precedent. It is upsetting almost every industry in every country, and the breadth and depth of changes is transforming entire systems of production, management, and governance.  Disruptive innovation is a reality that  can't be ignored.

Read our Technology Insights

Resources

By changing our thinking on how we produce what we need, we can create an economy that allows us to do so much more, with less. For example, global energy demand is predicted to double by 2060. Yet, most of it will be satisfied with renewable energy sources thanks to greener, less costly and more effective technologies.

Read our Resources Insights