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Costain CEO: 10-year infrastructure investment plan crucial for sector growth

With funds for infrastructure limited, as evidenced by chancellor of the exchequer…
What greater focus on placemaking means for infrastructure design

There has often been less focus on placemaking in infrastructure design than…
Client actions reduce risk in Carlisle Southern Link Road delivery

Plans to build a garden village on the edge of Carlisle will…
CECA CEO: New government a ‘mixed bag’ for infrastructure

For any industry, there are few more disruptive things that can happen…
Is the uptake of Nature-based Solutions advancing quickly enough?

Among the Labour government’s policy priorities, the protection of Britain’s nature and…

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Client actions reduce risk in Carlisle Southern Link Road delivery

What can be done to resolve the UK’s local road crisis?

Can the UK’s biggest SuDS retrofit bring new thinking to flood alleviation?

Coastal defence project progresses as team tackles logistical and environmental limitations

Renfrew Bridge’s complexity poses challenges to designers and contractors

How engineers use climate data to design coastal flood defences

Under construction UKAEA facility to aid fusion energy generation research

Early contractor involvement benefits SSEN Transmission’s overhaul of north Scotland energy infrastructure

How can the UK unlock floating offshore wind’s potential?

Can 3D printing go mainstream for bridge construction?

Combining tunnelling and mining disciplines to dig the record breaking Woodsmith mineral transport system

Tunnel under River Tees was ‘only viable option’ for £155M Northumbrian Water pipeline project

How can AI assist tunnel construction and maintenance

How Anglian Water’s Strategic Pipeline Alliance partners drastically cut cost and carbon

Could fibre optic technology hold the key to water leakage reduction?

How water companies will respond to AMP8 delivery challenges

Innovative Thinking

What greater focus on placemaking means for infrastructure design

Is the uptake of Nature-based Solutions advancing quickly enough?

Challenging basement excavation for City of London’s £596M ‘justice quarter’ demands temporary works ingenuity

NIC’s Project Level Design Principles could maximise infrastructure benefits

Debate | New approaches critical to effectively navigate the data ecosystem

Could drone surveys replace on-ground flood defences inspections?

Project team overcomes challenges of resurfacing Antarctic runway

How digital tools can help reduce infrastructure projects’ carbon footprint

Debate | Tackling pollution from road runoff

National Highways’ wind tunnel tests for Prince of Wales Bridge barrier replacement

Innovative Thinker | WSP’s David Symons on designing infrastructure with neurodivergent people in mind

Landslip-prone Northumberland road gets long term stabilisation solution

Replacing aggregate with subsoil to save carbon and waste on road projects

Contractors face ground engineering challenges on A63 underpass project in Hull

Researchers transform sugarcane by-product into slabs and bricks

Innovative Thinker | Embodied carbon regulation needed to accelerate the built environment’s decarbonisation

Big Interviews

Costain CEO: 10-year infrastructure investment plan crucial for sector growth

CECA CEO: New government a ‘mixed bag’ for infrastructure

Taylor Woodrow MD: Mission-driven generation is our great opportunity

ACE CEO: Delivery must back up dialogue with government

Skanska’s Adam Crossley on how the industry can remove obstacles to innovation

Crown Estate’s Gus Jaspert on actions required to expand UK’s offshore wind capacity

Arcadis CEO discusses exiting Middle East, ethics and positivity about future

South West Water’s Mark Worsfold warns delivery the only path to redemption

Interview | Safetytech Accelerator’s Helen Evans on innovation in water

‘Exciting’ scale of AMP8 presents opportunities to push supply chain innovation

Inside Track

Network Rail’s accessibility programme ‘significantly underperformed’ in last five years

Infrastructure DCOs potentially impacted by Supreme Court ruling on operational emissions

UK Research & Innovation director discusses success of Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge

Lord Hendy forced Systra to sack engineer for raising concerns about crowd crush at Euston station

Paralympian forced to ‘crawl off’ King’s Cross train spotlights need for level boarding

Campaign calls for Restoring Your Railway alternative to reopen abandoned railway lines

Mixed response to London City Airport expansion as government backs scheme, with conditions

Crossrail 2 ‘cannot fall off the agenda’: call for route to be safeguarded

Revealed: Low government spend on UK spaceports despite ambition to become European leader

Largest ever investment in GB transmission as Ofgem approves £3.4bn England-Scotland offshore link

Government investigating private finance options for £9bn Lower Thames Crossing

Morgan Sindall discusses completion of £75M concrete replacement scheme on A12 Margaretting Bypass

Missing M25 runoff pond data revealed as WSP signs on to aid National Highways’ water plan

Defence expert warns cyber threats against critical national infrastructure are ‘evolving’

UK will ‘struggle’ to meet 2030 CCUS ambitions, NAO warns

‘UK first’ wastewater hydropower project to produce 0.42 GWh green energy annually