Infrastructure Focus – Page 2

  • shutterstock_1457293622 CMYK
    Features

    Infrastructure update: The highways programme

    2020-04-30T06:00:00Z

    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

  • Alamy-HS2-site-construction-works2AHX27X
    Features

    HS2: A long way to go

    2020-02-19T06:00:00Z

    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?

  • LR-Crossrail-Bond-street
    Features

    Caroline Pidgeon: A decade spent scrutinising Crossrail

    2020-01-21T06:00:00Z

    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

  • network rail HS2 high speed shutterstock_143120521CMYK
    Features

    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 ...

  • Economics infrastructure 5G Nov 2019 shutterstock_662591011cmyk
    Features

    Infrastructure update: Full fibre and 5G

    Here, Ӱ examines the state of the digital communications market and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead

  • HS2 feature sept 2019 shutterstock
    Features

    What else is blocking HS2?

    2019-09-12T05:00:00Z

    We all know about its ballooning budget but it could be procurement problems that take HS2 off track

  • Grimshaw-architects-MAIN-PIC-HEATHROW-CGI-CMYK
    Features

    Heathrow expansion: Getting it together

    2019-06-27T05:00:00Z

    The expansion masterplan for Heathrow airport unveiled last week was the product of a most unusual design team – a multidisciplinary alliance of 800 individuals

  • Crossrail
    Features

    Crossrail delay: what's gone wrong – and why

    2019-02-20T06:00:00Z

    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?

  • Old-Oak-Common-aerial
    Features

    Is the future of HS2 at risk?

    2019-02-07T06:00:00Z

    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

  • shutterstock_586032545
    Features

    Crossrail: The long wait

    2018-09-13T06:00:00Z

    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

  • Ladywell-Alamy-H3KJM5
    Features

    Procurement update: Offsite

    2018-08-24T06:00:00Z

    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?

  • F0JP8T-Alamy-Motoring-Picture-Library-CYMK-web
    Features

    Infrastructure update: the road to electric

    2018-07-10T05:00:00Z

    The motor industry is gradually shifting to electric vehicles, but the rate of adoption is highly dependent on the rollout of charging infrastructure

  • Birmingham HS2 station
    Features

    What does HS2 mean for landscape, and how is this being approached?

    2018-06-29T07:34:00Z

    Christoph Brintrup, head of landscape design at HS2 explains the process behind ensuring HS2 considers its urban and rural surroundings

  • CD5489No064
    Features

    Canary Wharf: Eighties revival

    2018-06-28T06:00:00Z

    Wood Wharf, the latest development on the Canary Wharf estate, seeks to move away from the original scheme’s anodyne corporate banking aesthetic

  • Elizabethlinepermanenttrackinstallationiscomplete 281243 215499
    Features

    Procurement update: revolution

    2018-04-20T15:31:00Z

    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? 

  • Alamy m5 pe1 tweb
    Features

    Infrastructure update: Water's smart future

    2018-03-20T10:58:00Z

    Elisabeth Selk of Arcadis looks at how water companies can improve performance during Ofwat’s next price review period, PR19

  • Kh4 r3 g
    Features

    Infrastructure update: Investment review

    2017-11-23T11:28:00Z

    Elisabeth Selk of Arcadis explores the opportunities for infrastructure delivery in the UK to dive into deeper pools of private finance

  • forecast 6
    Features

    Shots in the dark

    2017-08-24T06:00:00Z

    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

  • Guildhall Art Gallery
    Features

    No place like home: Staycations, Part 3

    2017-08-15T06:00:00Z

    Looking for a vacation without airport stress and high costs? Read the third part of a trip around the UK’s best holiday destinations

  • Belfast
    Features

    No place like home: Staycations, Part 2

    2017-08-14T06:00:00Z

    Looking for a vacation without airport stress and high costs? Read the second part of a trip around the UK’s best holiday destinations