Just like the real world it simulates, Enginuity is designed to reflect the ups and downs of managing a global construction business, and the growing pains on the journey have to be overcome, and management teams need to adapt and come up with innovative solutions to keep their businesses on the right lines.
This was perfectly highlighted in period 6 as many teams that made substantial gains in period 5, due to winning lots of work, suddenly found period 6 to be more challenging. Carrying a high workload going into period 6, their infrastructure (capital base) restricted them from being able to win much new work, and forward workload and margin KPIs fell. To compound this the extra work that was won in period 5 needed to be progressed, and extra labour (own or subcontract) was required, incurring training costs for own new labour, or subcontract premiums. These all added to the cost base, and gross profit and operating profit to turnover KPIs suffered, and growth rates were largely down for many, with only 44% of the teams posting positive growth figures.

The result of this upheaval was major turbulence in the leaderboard in period 6, with 11 new entries into the top 12, and qualifying places for the final at the end of period 12.
At the top of the table previous high flyers the "Stantec Falcons" (Stantec, India) came down to earth, and it was "HatchGPT" (Hatch, South Africa) who emerged as the new leaders with 1,423 pts after solid 9% growth. Jacobs' teams emerged from the field with large positional gains, with "Powerhouse" (Jacobs, UK/Ireland) moving up 51 places to second, and "Antipodean Pavlovs" (Jacobs, Australia/New Zealand) up 79 places to 3rd, and "Nobles Across the Pond (NAWBL)" (WSP, UK/United States) made an astonishing 108 place rise to move joint 3rd.
After the drama of period 6, it is almost certain that the league table will see lots more changes in the next round as the teams who did not do so well this week are expected to come storming back, and those that faired well will be trying to consoldiate their gains.