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Ignition Insights
Scanning the Site Is Service Delivery: Where the R&D Sits in Turning Point Clouds into Decisions
Capture by established methods is ordinarily predictable. R&D may sit where the achievable detection performance was genuinely unknown. You self-assess.
AR on Site and Digital Twins: Which Part of an Immersive Construction Workflow Is Eligible R&D?
Deploying AR or a digital twin on site is generally implementation. Core R&D may sit where achievable accuracy, robustness or latency was unknown.
Novel Structural Systems and Difficult Sites: When Does Solving a Hard Engineering Problem Count as R&D?
Reactive soils, deep basements and complex forms are hard, not automatically R&D. The test is whether the outcome was unknown to the state of the art.
Modular and Prefabricated Construction: Where Is the Experiment in a DfMA Project?
Prefab novelty is not technical uncertainty. Where a core R&D activity may sit in a modular or DfMA project, and where the activity boundary falls.
BIM, Clash Detection and Project Controls: Which Parts of Construction Digitisation Can Go in an R&DTI Claim?
Most BIM and project-controls work is implementation, not R&D. Where clash resolution may be core — and what the s 355-25(2) exclusions rule out.
Automating Structural and Engineering Analysis: When Does a Faster Design Workflow Become Eligible R&D?
Automating a validated analysis is generally not core R&D. Where a surrogate's achievable accuracy was genuinely unknown, it may be. From an RSP.
Deploying an LLM Is Rarely the R&D — Making It Reliable Enough to Trust Might Be
Wiring a commercial LLM into a workflow is rarely the R&D. Under the R&DTI the experiment is the reliability property you could not predict in advance.
Your AI Quoting Engine: Where Does the R&D Actually Sit?
Building the engine is implementation. A core R&D activity may sit in whether your historical job records can predict labour hours to a defined measure.
Most of a Fintech's Engineering Budget Is Compliance — and Compliance Is Excluded
Complying with statutory requirements or standards is excluded from core R&D. Fintech eligibility survives where achievable performance was unknown.