Amid a series of UK infrastructure failures, can the Heathrow expansion become a construction success story?

By Chloë McCulloch2019-01-16T06:00:00

Crossrail, HS2 and the nuclear new build programme have all left the public with a sour taste - but can Heathrow buck the trend?

Mega infrastructure jobs are in the spotlight like never before, and for all the wrong reasons. Crossrail, for so long the darling project that could do no wrong, is subject to an unsightly and very public blame game as costs spiral by the billions and the end date recedes ever more into the distant future.

Meanwhile the start date for construction work on HS2 has been pushed back to the summer although there are murmurs nothing will actually happen until 2020. More worrying perhaps, the chief executive of the £56bn job admitted to MPs he intends to rein in costs by – and the irony of this will not be lost on the long-suffering British public – slowing down trains on the high speed line.

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