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2026 Industry Engineering Benchmark Report

How does your firm stack up against the rest of the sector? The 2026 Engineering Industry Benchmark Report draws on responses from engineering firms across Australia, the UK, New Zealand and beyond to give you a clear picture of where the industry stands on profitability, staffing, technology and growth.

This is the first year the report has been built exclusively from engineering firm responses, making the findings more specific and more useful than ever. If you want to know how your margins, utilisation and business development efforts compare to firms like yours, download the report now.

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Total Synergy Engineering Benchmark Report

Synergy product update — May 2021 — Stage-specific rate restrictions, staff menu navigation, and inactive staff filter

May’s release is a short and sharp one. We’ve created stage-specific rate restrictions, customised staff menu navigation, added a filter for inactive staff, and more.

How Synergy’s Outlook connector simplifies your communication

The April software update of our Synergy cloud platform is all about upgrading our email management to help you communicate more efficiently with Synergy and Microsoft Outlook

Synergy product update — April 2021 — New email management, update to global search, and Outlook connector

The busy bees in the Total Synergy product and development teams have been working hard this month on email management, improvements to global search, the Outlook connector, and more.

How Synergy’s search function just went global

Synergy’s new global search allows you to quickly search across the entire platform for your project items, whatever they are. Here’s how to use it, and get more time for design.

Synergy product update — March 2021 — Previewing Synergy CRM, Synergy HR, introducing global search

With a new season upon us, we're bringing a whole bunch of new features to Synergy in our March release! Previews of Synergy CRM and Synergy HR, our new Global Search, improvements to invoice templates all about creating #moretimefordesign. Check out the full list below.
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Liam Massey — HBL Associates

As a director of HBL Associates, Liam overseas the firm’s projects and staff across their 3 national offices in the United Kingdom.

Synergy product update — February 2021 — Updates to Planning board, invoicing, projects, SharePoint

With the sweet scent of Valentine’s Day still in the air, we wanted to let you know; we love you, Synergy community. Not in a weird way - more in a 'thanks for supporting us, always asking great questions, and giving us ideas for new features' kinda way. It's a short month, and a quick release featuring some changes to the planning board, work breakdown, and invoicing aimed at improving performance and reducing the noise. Check out the new shiny bits below.

Katherine Shannon — Laurence Associates

Katherine is responsible for managing and developing the business for Laurence Associates, drawing on her extensive experience to co-ordinate its day-to-day running, client liaison, and HR.

How Laurence Associates’ managers, fee-earners, and clients got clarity amid Covid

Find out how Synergy software gives multidisciplinary practice, Laurence Associates, “clarity — for management, fee earners and, most importantly, for clients” and how that’s giving them more time for their incredible design.
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Microsoft Teams (Unified Workspace)

Organise and collaborate on projects more efficiently with a streamlined integration between Synergy, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams to manage your project information.
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Joanne Craig — Extent Heritage

Joanne Craig is Extent Heritage's finance manager, overseeing the balances and budgets of the highly skilled team of advisors across Australia and the Asia Pacific.

Kat Lethbridge — Cera Stribley Architects

Kat is the studio operations manager of Cera Stribley Architects, an architectural practice in Prahran, Victoria.
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