All Infrastructure articles
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FeaturesInfrastructure update: How can developers navigate the ever-lengthening connections queue?
In the second half of our two-part special on UK power, Turner & Townsend Alinea examine how the rising demand for new connections to the distribution network has time and cost impacts for developers.
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FeaturesInfrastructure update: Electricity transmission owners hold key to UK’s energy transition but face challenges
The transmission sector is a key link in the chain that will deliver a net zero future, write Mark Docherty and Simon Rawlinson
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FeaturesInfrastructure update: What challenges does Labour face and what can the industry expect?
What steps should the new government take to accelerate infrastructure delivery? Simon Rawlinson surveys the post-electoral landscape
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NewsSNP calls for changes to Westminster’s fiscal rules to boost infrastructure investment
Party’s manifesto also calls for devolution of housing benefit to boost social housing delivery
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NewsIndustry reacts to Conservative Party’s ‘unbalanced’ and ‘frustrating’ manifesto
Modest welcome for Help to Buy relaunch but Tories fail to impress with lack of planning reform
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NewsSunak pledges to revive Help To Buy at Conservative manifesto launch
Party also pledges to get major infrastructure projects signed off within 12 months
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FeaturesStanding your ground: Mott MacDonald’s Cathy Travers on her plans for the engineering giant
Cathy Travers has risen to become global MD of the largest engineering firm in the UK. She discusses her optimism about growth, infrastructure strategy and improving inclusivity
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NewsMitigating local planning concerns meant HS2 was always going to be expensive, says scheme’s former COO
Unfair to compare railway’s cost to those in Europe because of amount of tunnels and cuttings that have needed digging, Richard Robinson adds
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FeaturesHow robust management of ‘forever chemicals’ can help developers bring forward brownfield regeneration sites
PFAS contamination is impacting brownfield projects, but robust risk management can help developers bring forward sites even as regulations are tightened up
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NewsKier cuts net debt by a further £100m
Order book increases 6% as part of ‘disciplined growth’ says contracting giant
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NewsRailway station footbridge ‘overdue by a decade and £8.25m over budget’
Upgrade in Berkshire due to open this spring reflects ‘stifling bureaucracy and red tape’ that affects UK infrastructure planning and construction, according to local MP
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FeaturesInfrastructure and speeding up the planning system
The UK’s infrastructure planning system has been misfiring for years, but efforts are ongoing to speed up crucial planning decisions
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NewsAutumn statement 2023: coverage all in one place
Building’s coverage of the Autumn Statement all in one place
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NewsShadow chancellor pledges to speed up ‘critically important infrastructure’
Shadow chancellor set to announce measures to fast track planning for life sciences, battery factories and 5G infrastructure
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FeaturesKey takeaways from the Conservative Party conference
This party conference will long be remembered as the place HS2 died. But rail was far from the only topic on the agenda in Manchester, as Daniel Gayne reports
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Features‘The design team has gone from 500 to six.’ What HS2 Euston is doing now
What happens when you are told that the job you have been working on is put on hold? Dave Rogers went to find out
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FeaturesHow transport infrastructure can unlock regeneration and levelling up
Regional and local transport planning in the UK has been boosted through the award of long-term funding to city regions and by aligning mobility to levelling up
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Features‘Just get on and build the thing.’ John Armitt goes in to bat for HS2
The chair of the National Infrastructure Commission on why politics can never be taken out of building and why we should stop dithering
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FeaturesUK cities: regional roundup
Despite the challenges, regional cities are seeing an exciting range of new development, across infrastructure, commercial and residential
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FeaturesInfrastructure update: Can investment in energy security be compatible with net zero?
The war in Ukraine has highlighted the importance of energy security. But how does investment in greater resilience align with progress towards net zero?