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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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The benefit of Synergy's multi-currency invoicing release.

Invoices without borders — the benefit of Synergy’s multi-currency invoicing update

As an architecture, engineering, or construction design practice with an office that works in a particular currency, what happens when you have to invoice in other countries, where the invoicing is in a different currency? Paul Hemmings explains the benefit of Synergy’s multi-currency invoicing update.
Resource planning of staff in a built environment design business.

Skill and (avail)ability — resource planning of staff in a built environment design business

Skill and (avail)ability — how do you manage resource planning of your staff in a built environment design business? Synergy’s product manager Paul Hemmings shows you how we help you do it.

Synergy product update — 29 April 2019 — Multi-currency invoicing

Our April 2019 product update is a big one as we release a new feature — multi-currency invoicing — and a major update to the forecasting and resourcing planning board — staff availability planner.
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Location, location, location — the opportunities in Synergy’s multi-office release

Location, location, location — Total Synergy’s product manager, Paul Hemmings looks at the problems and pros of being a business with multiple offices, and the opportunities in Synergy’s multi-office release.

More time to grow — how HBL Associates use Synergy to stay nimble

How does a growing consulting engineering business keep progressing without losing their responsiveness to staff and client growth? We ask HBL Associates’ Liam Massey how they used Synergy to save an average eight admin hours a day.

#SynergyTips — Timesheets daily notes

In March 2019 we rolled out the Synergy timesheets daily notes update to demonstrate what we all know: if you wanna remember it, you gotta write it down.
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Hitting the right note — recording time expenditure in Synergy just got easier

If asked by a manager, how many staff members could remember what they were specifically doing two Wednesdays ago? If pressed by a client, how many practices could produce timesheets detailed enough to settle a dispute over invoiced hours?

Synergy product update — 25 March 2019 — Timesheets daily notes

Introducing Synergy timesheets daily notes. This brings a significant — and highly requested — enhancement to how you record time against your jobs
Punching the clock: working out the cost of professional time in an AEC design business

Punching the clock: the cost of time in an AEC design business 

How do we work out how much time it takes to design well? And how do we assign a value to that time once we have? We’re taking a look at how we punch the clock in the architectural, engineering, and construction design industry.

Synergy product update — 21 February 2019 — Multi office

In our first product update for 2019, we’re introducing all-new Synergy multi office, a major enhancement to project templates and a few more minor updates.

Synergy holiday support hours — Dec 2018 to Jan 2019

Information about our reduced helpdesk hours over the Christmas and holiday season.

Synergy product update — 10 December 2018 — Planning board

Our product update for December introduces the new planning board and includes enhancements to the forecasting and resourcing features, updates to the work breakdown and budget functions, and an update to the accounting add-on connections.
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