Tag Archives: infrastructure

Should cost and affordability constrain infrastructure advice given to the government? Should  Parliament be involved in the infrastructure planning process to build better cross-party consensus? The Institution is seeking input on these and other questions in a consultation exercise and discussion paper launched in April. The consultation aims to discover…

Publication of the National Infrastructure Strategy (NIS) in late 2020 marked the culmination of the first round of the UK’s approach to strategic infrastructure planning, while providing clarity on the direction of travel for infrastructure investment. There have been a number of outcomes since the establishment of the National Infrastructure…

Variances of up to 2,000% in carbon data is putting delivery of the government’s 2050 carbon net zero promise at risk and better standards for reporting are needed, according to the Net Zero Infrastructure Industry Coalition.

The coalition’s Is our carbon wallet empty report revealed huge variances in the way that…

To halt and reverse biodiversity decline we need a fresh new partnership between nature conservation and infrastructure.

  A thriving alliance between infrastructure engineers and those restoring nature could create flourishing nature recovery networks linked to infrastructure development. The delivery of new infrastructure projects and associated construction typically results in significant…

Longer term focus is needed if infrastructure investment is to drive economic recovery post-Covid, according to a leading independent global infrastructure investment manager.

Speaking at McKinsey’s Global Infrastructure Initiative event this week, I Squared chair and managing partner Sadek Wahba said that the focus on “shovel ready” projects to create an…

People that can display leadership and deliver change effectively will be a key resource on projects of the future, according to Bechtel president of infrastructure Shaun Kenny.

Speaking at the Global Infrastructure Initiative event organised by management consultant McKinsey yesterday, Kenny said: “Although we talk a lot about technology, leadership and…

People and communities must be at the heart of all infrastructure says Kerry Scott.

Infrastructure’s economic cost often dominates debate about the merits of a project. But, increasingly, engineers are being compelled to embed social value into the way projects are designed and delivered.  The need to focus on social outcomes…

Galliford Try returned to profit in the six months to December 2020 after posting a £5.6M loss in the first half of the year.

The firm also plans to repay the £1.5M claimed in government furlough payments after withdrawing from the scheme last August. Overall, the business delivered a pretax profit…

High level ambitions to use infrastructure to support levelling up and regeneration were set out in last year’s National Infrastructure Strategy but plans on how this is to be progressed were revealed following yesterday’s Budget.

Cities are often the focus of infrastructure investment but documents released yesterday show that towns and…

Creation of the UK’s first Infrastructure Bank will unite the private sector and local government in a shared mission to accelerate investment in the country’s infrastructure, according to chancellor Rishi Sunak.

Sunak’s announcement of the formation of the bank during the Budget has been broadly welcomed by industry and confirms the…