Architecture Insight Conference Session #4: Parallels with the Victorian Engineers

The premise for this session is that as architects we are building the infrastructure for the information revolution that the generations that follow us will have to live with. This is in much the same way as we are dealing with the consequences of the decisions  made by the Victorian engineers.

Good fun abstracting Victorian technology innovations and IT innovations to create a parallel – parallels that are a bit too close for comfort sometimes.

Nice session to end the day with, a session to make you think about the long-term rather than all of the short-term pressures we face every day.

One of the examples that really made sense to me was a parallel of the Tay Bridge Disaster. Basically the design was poor because they guessed a lot of things and didn’t do the maths. The build was poor and didn’t even follow the design and the maintenance was poor. Nothing like IT projects then .