The 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.
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.
Praise for the book
“The Future of Engineering: Legacy by Design is not simply a reflection on the profession it is an invitation, a challenge, and a roadmap. Felicity Furey brings to this work what few can: the rare combination of technical expertise, leadership across complex systems, deep human insight, and lived experience at every level of engineering—from design and delivery to strategy, policy, and education. Felicity has long been a voice pushing the profession forward, championing inclusive, community-centred engineering and empowering thousands of young people through initiatives such as Power of Engineering and WeAspire. She has always understood that the true power of engineering lies not just in what we create, but in why and for whom we create it.”
Peter Bailey, Former Engineer, Principal and Group Board Director, Arup Group
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