Mr Broughton said his boss, John Eardley, rang him a week after Mr Farr's death to ask him to retrospectively sign a method statement, a risk assessment and a computer-aided drawing of the barrier's construction.

BBC: Last Updated: Monday, 6 March 2006, 19:55 GMT

Designs can be created using computer graphics, digital photography, line drawing and painting.

BBC: Publicity shot for the initiative (pic: Arch)

Yet the industry's attitude towards its growing environmental impact is rather unusual: computer-makers actually seem to enjoy drawing attention to it.

ECONOMIST: Computers and the environment

Alongside summer interns Jamie Wong and Jessica Liu, Resig worked to create an introduction to computer science course with online chapters in drawing, programming, animation and user interaction.

FORBES: Forget Comp Sci 101: Learn To Code With A Click Of Your Mouse

Luckily, Honda is showing that it is possible to get back on track, which ought to provide some reassurance for those companies that find themselves back to the drawing board (or in this case, computer screen).

FORBES: The Do-Over Car Trend: Can Consumers Forgive And Forget?

Instead of doing a drawing you can now do a 3 dimensional representation on a computer screen of each part.

FORBES: The New Manufacturing Lifecycle: An Interview With PTC's Hepplemann

Also on the drawing board: an SD that can store an astounding 18 gigabytes of computer data.

CNN: ASIANOW - Asiaweek

"There have been programs that have been around for decades that will get a computer to generate new material that crosses that line into the significant new, " such as a drawing program created by artist Harold Cohen.

CNN: Roboticist sees improvisation through machine's eyes

To achieve these feats, Nektar's scientists performed hundreds of hours of computer simulations, tested more than a dozen different formulations of dried insulin and traveled around the world drawing inspiration from ancient Chinese seeds, plants in the Mexican desert and production techniques used in making instant coffee, powdered milk, aviation aerodynamics, truck fuel injectors and industrial vacuum pumps.

FORBES: The Impossible Made Possible