Future of Engineering: Legacy by Design

For over a century, engineering has been driven by efficiency, control, and optimisation. These values helped build the modern world, but they are no longer enough. As communities fracture, trust erodes, and the consequences of short-term thinking become impossible to ignore, engineers are being asked to do more than deliver projects.The Future of Engineering: Legacy by Design is a call to rethink what it means to be an engineer in the 21st century. Drawing on real projects, lived experience, and hard-won lessons from the front lines of infrastructure, leadership, and community engagement, Felicity Furey challenges the idea that engineering is neutral, purely technical, or value-free.This book explores how inherited standards, assumptions, and cultures shape our decisions, and how those decisions ripple through communities, ecosystems, and generations. From bias embedded in design to the hidden costs of optimising for speed, efficiency, and profit alone, Furey reveals why technical success can still lead to human failure.This is not a book about blame. It is a book about possibility.Through practical frameworks, powerful storytelling, and evidence-based insight, The Future of Engineering: Legacy by Design offers engineers, leaders, and decision-makers a new way forward - one that places human wellbeing, care for Country, and long-term legacy at the heart of engineering practice.This is a book for anyone who has ever delivered a project “to standard” and still felt something was missing. For those who believe engineering can be a regenerative force for good, and for the future engineers who will inherit the world we are designing today.The future is not shaped by one big decision.Instead, it is shaped by thousands of small ones, made with intention. Read more