Author Archives: Gavin Pearson

Engineers can be forgiven for feeling besieged by widespread narratives of cost overruns, delays and cancellations. Our industry also faces real capacity challenges with evergrowing public demands and difficulties securing the skills base and supply chains required to meet those demands.

Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it. That is probably how water industry engineers feel about their five year AMP8 spending programme right now. Capital budgets are going to double compared to AMP7 and engineers are charged with somehow scaling up delivery capacity before new work…

Work by Autodesk and Deloitte Access Economics has found the UK leads other European countries on construction data but that progress is being hampered by lack of integration and challenges in training those who will increasingly need to use it.

Launched by the government in October 2011, the Green Construction Board has provided expert advice for industry and government for more than a decade. In 2016 it joined forces with the ICE to produce PAS 2080, the world’s first specification for decarbonising buildings and infrastructure.

The government lacks urgency, targets and timescales for managing surface water flooding, according to the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) chief.

We knew this time would come. When the great highways boom started in the 1950s, we knew that one day our shiny new beacons of personal freedom and prosperity would grow old and we would have to do more to maintain them. Of course, it is not as though a…

Turning subsoil into an aggregate replacement is already cutting carbon, cost and waste on new housing estates. So how have housebuilders stolen a march on big infrastructure?

With just six weeks left to enter this year’s British Construction Industry Awards (BCIAs), the line-up of judges has been announced.

ABB has signed memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Green Hydrogen International (GHI) on a project to develop the major green hydrogen facility in south Texas, United States.

 The government has responded to the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) study on reducing the risk of surface water flooding, but has not accepted a number of the report’s recommendations.