Behaviour change can unlock long-lasting social, economic and environmental benefits and is a critical component of the transition to net zero, according to a new policy paper from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Infrastructure (APPGI).
The professional body for civil engineers and the APPGI…
The chief executive of Octopus Energy has said the company plans to invest billions of pounds in building energy infrastructure abroad becuase the wait time to get generation projects connected to the UK grid is too long.
Speaking in the Daily Telegraph, Gregg Jackson explained how red tape, planning obstacles and…
National Grid has submitted planning applications to build a new power tunnel under the Thames, replacing the 1960s Thames Cable Tunnel, as part of its plans to upgrade electricity infrastructure between Kent and Essex.
The body’s Grain to Tilbury proposals are part of the Great Grid Upgrade, the biggest electricity infrastructure…
The planned £1.35bn Aquind Interconnector between the UK and France has hit another delay following concerns raised by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
Aquind is a privately financed, subsea and underground high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable between Normandy in France and Lovedean Substation in Hampshire. According to project promoter Aquind…
Electrification of heat, transport and industry is essential if the UK is to achieve net zero by 2050 and, as a result, electricity demand is expected to double over the next 25 years.
Meeting this demand will call for delivery of new infrastructure at a scale and pace not seen…
Costain has completed front end engineering design (Feed) for two carbon capture projects on Teesside.
The Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power) and Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) are part of the East Coast Cluster (ECC), a carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) cluster looking to slash the UK’s industrial carbon emissions…
Public sector procurement authority Scape has appointed Kier, Mclaughlin & Harvey and RJ McLeod to its £4bn frameworks designed to help utilities companies progress infrastructure projects through a direct award model.
The new direct award utilities framework for England, Wales and Northern Ireland is worth £3bn and was awarded to Kier…
WSP has been appointed by National Gas to develop best practice guidelines on how a new hydrogen network for the UK should be designed.
The partnership will facilitate the exploration of new approaches to design, as well as the adaption of existing assets for new hydrogen transmission infrastructure. This will be…
The latest episode of the Engineers Collective is out now.
This month’s episode of focuses on the role that hydrogen could play in the global effort to transition to a zero-carbon world. International management consultancy Arthur D. Little recently put out a report entitled Hydrogen: The electroshock to the energy transition…
The third report from the Competence Steering Group (CSG) is urging industry to embrace new competence-related standards and frameworks for those working in safety-critical occupations in the wake of the Grenfell fire.
A Higher Bar – Achieving a Competence-led Built Environment lays out “significant” steps being made in the built environment…
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