Ten-year infrastructure strategy pipeline will require new approaches from industry

By Andy Wain 2025-04-02T07:00:00

The 10-year infrastructure strategy presents an opportunity to approach projects differently in order to overcome some of the industry’s past challenges, writes Andy Wain of Mott MacDonald

Deliverability and affordability will rightly be front and centre in the government’s new 10-year infrastructure strategy when it is published later this year. However, responsibility for how that is achieved does not sit solely with government, although there is much that it could mandate. Industry has a duty to use best practice and lessons learnt to find better ways of working too.

If we can come together in this way, in combination with this long-term pipeline, there is huge potential for progressive improvement in cost and deliverability over the next decade. But to get that continual progress started, the industry needs to consider what it can do differently. Continuing with the same practices as before is unlikely to deliver a different result.

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