Recent weather events, like last summer’s record-breaking heatwave, show that we are feeling the effects of climate change right now.
If carbon emissions continue to rise unabated, the world is on a path to warm by at least 1.5°C between 2030 and 2052. Even with global pledges to mitigate emissions in…
The government is coming under mounting pressure to adapt the UK’s national critical infrastructure (CIN) to the risks of climate change.
Dame Margaret Beckett, chair of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) has said she is concerned the government is not treating the issue with enough “urgency”. In…
The UK needs a fundamental shift in its rail investment priorities to help slash carbon emissions in the transport sector, according to thinktank Greengauge21.
The latest report by director of the research group Jim Steer urges authorities to put climate change “centre stage” when deciding how to invest in the UK’s…
Infrastructure is the key that will unlock net zero. Those are not my words but I have said much the same in the past and the comment is one that many others in the civil engineering sector have also made previously. The words are those of MP and former energy…
Last year was recently confirmed by the Met Office as the UK’s hottest year on record, with an average temperature of over 10°C recorded for the first time. This cements the fact that our infrastructure is facing pressures that, for the most part, it was not designed to withstand. With…
This video is from NCE’s Future of Roads conference 2022. Mott MacDonald professor of future mobility Glenn Lyons takes a look at the future of roads in the context of climate change. What sort of society could roads be supporting in 2072? What might they be used for? What types…
This video is from NCE’s Future of Roads conference 2022. Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation chief executive Sue Percy reflects on 50 years of road development, looking at the rapid growth from the 1960s onwards.
Survey by ICE Community Advisory Boards sets out key issues that civil engineers will face in 2023, among them collaboration and data sharing.
Greater collaboration and better data sharing within and outside the civil engineering sector will be major themes for engineers next year, according to the ICE’s Infrastructure in 2023…
Three years on from a potentially catastrophic failure, work is underway to rehabilitate Toddbrook Reservoir and make it the gold standard for dam resilience.
Toddbrook Reservoir in the Peak District became headline news in August 2019 when the main dam almost collapsed following the failure of its auxiliary spillway. The ongoing…
In his address to ICE staff and members earlier this month, new ICE President Keith Howells described climate change as the “defining issue of our age” and outlined seven aims for the Institution to address the issue. These are all linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs)…
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