Infrastructure Focus – Page 2
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Infrastructure update: The highways programme
Highways England is about to embark on a massive road investment programme, RIS2, for 2020-25. Agnieszka Krzyzaniak and Nora Taylor of Arcadis explore how it will go about delivering the programme efficiently while aiming to minimise environmental impact and increasing its focus on road user experience
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HS2: A long way to go
Source: Alamy Why are costs higher than on other high-speed lines around the world, how can the railway avoid Crossrail’s mistakes – and how much of it will really go ahead?
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Caroline Pidgeon: A decade spent scrutinising Crossrail
Caroline Pidgeon knows Crossrail inside out after scrutinising the project for a decade and grilling its key players for London’s transport committee. She speaks to Jordan Marshall about exactly what has gone wrong, why the delay is so frustrating and lessons to be learned
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Budget busters: What lies ahead for infrastructure?
Crossrail, Hinkley Point and HS2 would all make great subjects for a soap opera – and there are more cliffhangers to come. Then there’s the Westminster saga, with its “season finale” election next month. Jordan Marshall asks what this means for future infrastructure work and the companies that bid for ...
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Infrastructure update: Full fibre and 5G
Here, Ӱ examines the state of the digital communications market and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead
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What else is blocking HS2?
We all know about its ballooning budget but it could be procurement problems that take HS2 off track
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Heathrow expansion: Getting it together
The expansion masterplan for Heathrow airport unveiled last week was the product of a most unusual design team – a multidisciplinary alliance of 800 individuals
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Crossrail delay: what's gone wrong – and why
Already a year behind schedule and with no end in sight, Crossrail is burning £30m a week in cash as it struggles to reach completion – but as yet, no one can say when that might be. Why is the trans-London line causing such pain?
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Is the future of HS2 at risk?
This is a crucial year for HS2. As it waits for the government to give the signal to proceed in earnest, there are fears that rising costs could derail the project
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Crossrail: The long wait
As Crossrail’s opening date is pushed further and further into the future and costs spiral over budget, Joey Gardiner asks why the biggest construction project in Europe has swerved so far off track and how this could impact the rest of the industry
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Procurement update: Offsite
With government pushing the offsite agenda and a growing housing sector needing to access new capacity, how can clients position themselves to take advantage of the benefits of offsite construction?
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Infrastructure update: the road to electric
The motor industry is gradually shifting to electric vehicles, but the rate of adoption is highly dependent on the rollout of charging infrastructure
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What does HS2 mean for landscape, and how is this being approached?
Christoph Brintrup, head of landscape design at HS2 explains the process behind ensuring HS2 considers its urban and rural surroundings
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Canary Wharf: Eighties revival
Wood Wharf, the latest development on the Canary Wharf estate, seeks to move away from the original scheme’s anodyne corporate banking aesthetic
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Procurement update: revolution
Two decades on from the Egan report and with a construction sector deal on the way, will 2018 be the year for construction’s procurement revolution?
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Infrastructure update: Water's smart future
Elisabeth Selk of Arcadis looks at how water companies can improve performance during Ofwat’s next price review period, PR19
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Infrastructure update: Investment review
Elisabeth Selk of Arcadis explores the opportunities for infrastructure delivery in the UK to dive into deeper pools of private finance
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Shots in the dark
Commentators are starting to predict a gloomier picture for the UK economy and the construction sector due to the negative effects of constant political uncertainty
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No place like home: Staycations, Part 3
Looking for a vacation without airport stress and high costs? Read the third part of a trip around the UK’s best holiday destinations
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No place like home: Staycations, Part 2
Looking for a vacation without airport stress and high costs? Read the second part of a trip around the UK’s best holiday destinations