Tag Archives: infrastructure

A General Election is due before late January 2025. The next British government will have to focus minds and accelerate net zero delivery through decisive leadership and bold decision making. In the recent Budget, chancellor Jeremy Hunt confirmed that the next Spending Review will take place after the election. This…

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was the keynote speaker at an evening reception hosted by the ICE and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Infrastructure (APPGI).

It was held at the ICE headquarters at One Great George Street in February. Hunt spoke about the importance of engineering and the role of infrastructure in…

Sadie Morgan is one of three members of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) to have been involved since it was founded in 2015.

She was part of the NIC’s first National Infrastructure Assessment (NIA1) which set out recommendations for a 30 year infrastructure strategy in 2018. So before discussing the NIC’s…

The ICE-convened Enabling Better Infrastructure (EBI) programme has launched updated guidance for governments to help them plan infrastructure spending.

ICE President Anusha Shah launched the new guidance on 18 January in Singapore, at an event co-hosted with law firm Pinsent Masons MPillay. The EBI programme was established in 2019 to help…

  The prime minister recently announced that his “working assumption” is that there will be a General Election in the second half of the year. This reinforced his briefings at the end of last year that 2024 would indeed be an election year. It also means that there is still…

A new guide providing practical advice for boosting productivity across the infrastructure lifecycle, has been published by the ICE.

Driving Productivity: Infrastructure Lifecycle Guidance is an online publication which builds on the Institution’s State of the Nation 2022: Improving Infrastructure Productivity report. State of the Nation 2022 explored possible interventions that…

The UK’s infrastructure industry might be forgiven for being downhearted as we come into the New Year. Confidence in major project and programme delivery is at, what feels like, an all time low. The cancellation of Phase 2 of High Speed 2 (HS2) is a recent – and very public…

The final months of 2023 have been tough for our sector. The cost-driven cancellation of High Speed 2 north of Birmingham was not a complete surprise by the time  the government stopped hinting and finally announced it. But it was still a shock and led to new questions about why…

It has been an eventful few months for UK infrastructure policy, even by recent standards. Industry warnings about offshore wind incentives were ignored, net zero policies were scaled back, and the northern leg of High Speed 2 was cancelled. Within this whirlwind policy environment, the second National Infrastructure Assessment (NIA2)…

It seems that the UK’s infrastructure to-do list grows ever larger. Progress towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, delivering net zero, adapting to climate change and addressing economic and regional disparity have slowed. Policy uncertainty, spending constraints and weak productivity have all contributed. With a General Election due in 2024,…