The companies who build the UK’s infrastructure have seen workloads slow at a faster pace than at any point since the last recession as widespread delays to projects start to bite. The UK Government has regularly touted its commitment to invest in infrastructure, promoting a pipeline of more than £600 billion of investment in more
The Government has today published the first progress report of its landmark 25 Year Environment Plan indicating that, in the first year alone, 90% of the plan’s actions have been delivered or are being progressed. Launched in January 2018, the 25 Year Environment Plan sets out how the UK will improve the environment over a
Following on from its Airport Expansion Consultation One last year and the Airspace and Future Operations Consultation earlier this year, Heathrow have now announced the next stage of consultation on its expansion plans. On Tuesday 18 June 2019 Heathrow will launch the statutory Airport Expansion Consultation which will run for twelve and a half weeks
The UK’s national mapping body, the Ordnance Survey (OS), has partnered with Intel subsidiary Mobileye to map the UK’s roadside infrastructure. The ambitious project aims to provide precise, accurate data to multiple sectors on road networks and associated infrastructure across the UK. Fleets of vehicles provided by Northumbrian Water Group will be fitted with Mobileye 8 Connect,
Self-driving trucks which could help speed up roadworks are being tested for the first time in England on the UK’s biggest road upgrade, Highways England’s improvement of the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon. The dump trucks, which move huge amounts of earth, have the potential to work around the clock, so could help reduce the
The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has published its business plan for 2019-2021 and said that it has listened to industry’s demands for the plan to become more strategic and better focused. The plan sets out solutions to what CITB has identified as the “Big Six” skills challenges facing the UK’s construction industry. These are: Ensuring
As members will be aware, the Competition and Markets Authority has recently been investigating a number of cases of potential competition law breaches by firms in the construction sector. Most recently, their investigations resulted in the disqualification of two company directors of CPM group due to their involvement in a cartel. To raise the level
I’m sitting in a crane 100 feet above Kings Cross St Pancras station, carefully moving a component weighing a ton through a narrow gap between two buildings. I nudge the joystick right, the cab rotates and the load begins to move. I’m loading an air conditioning unit onto the top of the new Google offices.
The Cabinet Office and Geospatial Commission have announced that a digital map of underground pipes and cables is to be created, to help save lives and reduce the disruption caused when they are struck by mistake. It is estimated that the cost of accidental strikes on underground pipes and cables is £1.2 billion a year
A new report, commissioned by the Permanent Secretary of the Department for Transport (DfT) Bernadette Kelly and the Chief Executive of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority Matthew Vickerstaff, has identified lessons to increase confidence that future transport, infrastructure and wider Government projects are delivered with confidence, predictability and control. Lessons from transport for the sponsorship
