The government has launched a consultation about implementing the "Action Plan", which it issued in February, to make improvements to the nationally significant infrastructure planning regime.
At the end of July, government announced the price list for statutory biodiversity credits and they are pretty eyewatering – but what lies behind this and what are the implications?
London Gatwick Airport’s planning application to bring its existing northern runway into routine use has been accepted for detailed examination by the Planning Inspectorate.
Atkins has collaborated with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) on a “digital toolkit” that estimates the embodied carbon associated with airport construction.
The UK government has enabled a financing package of €422M (£373M) for infrastructure projects across Zanzibar, Tanzania that will be driven by UK exporters.
The deadline for the TechFest Awards has been extended to Friday 21 July, giving potential entrants just under two weeks extra to submit their entries.
Specialist lifting firm Mammoet used a variety of techniques to assemble and install the new seismically isolated roof structure at Portland Airport in the United States amid active runways and without disrupting services.
The Climate Change Committee’s (CCC’s) confidence in the UK meeting its decarbonisation and net zero goals post-2030 is “markedly less” than it was a year ago and it has pointed out a wide range of holes in the government’s policies for achieving them.
The European Commission has awarded £55M (€64M) for the development of full design documentation for the planned first section of Poland’s multi-billion Euro high speed rail project.
Putting female role models in the spotlight is a key part of today’s International Women in Engineering Day, which is now an annual event, and NCE is relaunching an initiative to ensure women remain in that spotlight throughout the year.
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