Guiding Visions | Engineerng Dreams

Resources & Media

Alan King

Guiding Visions | Engineerng Dreams

Resources & Media

 

Publications:

Co-Author (2025) AI & I: Artificial Intelligence, Humanity and what comes next. A guide for anyone who is curious about how AI is reshaping our world, whether you have a technical background or none at all. Each chapter offers short, clear explanations and real-life examples, helping you explore the topics that matter most: opportunity, ethics, risk, creativity, innovation, and ultimately, what it means to be human in an age of intelligent machines.

Author (2014) Reduce Your Emissions, Increase Your Bottom Line, shows how sustainability and profitability can go hand in hand. It provides practical strategies for businesses to cut carbon emissions, streamline operations, and boost profitability, all without compromising growth. Whether you’re leading a company, managing a project, or exploring greener practices, this guide delivers actionable insights to create both environmental and financial impact.

Thought leadership:

(December 2025) My Perspective on the Real Road to Net Zero – What Business Leaders Must Understand in 2026. This article argues that reaching Net Zero in 2026 requires far more than energy tweaks or corporate messaging; it demands whole-life thinking, circular design, integrated governance, and the strategic use of GreenTech and PropTech. As Net Zero becomes a core marker of business resilience and long-term value, leaders must move beyond fragmented initiatives and recognise it as a commercial advantage, not a compliance burden. Companies that embed Net Zero into culture, investment, and decision-making will be better positioned to reduce risk, strengthen brand credibility, and compete in a rapidly shifting global landscape.

(December 2025) Where I See PropTech Heading – How AI Will Transform the Built Environment. This article explores how artificial intelligence is poised to transform PropTech and reshape the built environment. As AI accelerates the shift toward data-driven design, real-time optimisation and whole-life sustainability, traditional building processes, from modelling to maintenance-stand to become significantly more efficient and transparent. With smarter energy systems, predictive operations and integrated carbon tracking, the sector may move toward fully adaptive, intelligent buildings, though challenges around data, skills and regulation remain.

(JUNE 2025) Britain 2100: Energy Abundance, Equity, and the Path to Regeneration. This article examines the infrastructure, policy, and societal changes needed for a future where homes and vehicles actively contribute to a decentralised energy system. The piece asks whether the UK can lead the clean-energy transition or risk falling behind.

(JUNE 2025) Embracing the Circular Economy: A Visionary Path to Sustainable Innovation. This article explores how embracing the circular economy isn’t just a sustainable choice, it’s a transformative innovation engine. It argues that we must move beyond the linear “take‑make‑dispose” model and adopt designs, systems and business models that reuse, regenerate and deliver value repeatedly. From built‑environment examples to industrial applications, it shows how circularity can drive growth, cut waste and future‑proof our economy.

(MAY 2025) The AI & Climate Change: Innovation is our Climate Ally. This article explores how artificial intelligence is becoming a powerhouse in the fight against climate change. From decarbonising energy, industry, agriculture, transportation and buildings, to automating carbon tracking and safeguarding biodiversity, AI is transforming how we tackle emissions. It’s not a magic bullet, but if we deploy it responsibly and collaboratively, it could be the ally our planet desperately needs.

(FEB 2025) Trump’s Anti-Climate Agenda: A Major Setback for Global Sustainability and the UK’s Green Future. This article examines how Donald Trump’s return to power threatens to derail global sustainability efforts and undermine the UK’s green ambitions. With the US poised to revert to a pro‑fossil‑fuel, anti‑regulation agenda, UK clean‑energy initiatives, green investment partnerships and emissions‑reduction goals face significant uncertainty.