Tag Archives: infrastructure

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,…

How can new technologies and a systems approach improve rail infrastructure delivery and asset management?

The way rail infrastructure assets are designed, delivered and maintained has transformed over the past few decades, thanks to the introduction of new technologies. The wide adoption of digital tools by rail asset owners and their…

The value of civil engineering projects which got underway across the UK in the three months to the end of July was down by nearly a half year-on-year, according to data by construction industry analysts Glenigan.

According to Glenigan’s analysis, which covers projects with a total value of £100M or less,…

The 2023 Spring Budget set out the UK Government’s spending plans and the budget for Northern Ireland had a 0.4% fall in overall departmental spending. Since this does not account for factors including inflation, significant cost pressures exist. Urgent action is needed if Northern Ireland is to achieve its climate…

The UK government has published its third National Adaptation Programme (NAP3) which sets out its strategic five-year plan to boost resilience against climate change risks, which includes several measures to boost resilience of infrastructure assets.

The 2008 Climate Change Act requires the government to complete a Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA)…

Only 8.5% of megaprojects are completed on time and to budget, says Oxford University professor of major programme management and IT University of Copenhagen professor of programme management Bent Flyvbjerg.

“It’s shocking, but these are the core facts.” He reached this conclusion after compiling a database of more than 16,000 megaprojects…