Author Archives: Mark Hansford

A row has broken out between senior figures appointed to review High Speed 2 (HS2) and the project’s original designer.

Vociferous backer of High Speed 2 (HS2) West Midlands mayor Andy Street has weighed in to the growing row around the Boris Johnson-commissioned Oakervee review into the mega project, urging MPs and Lords to dismiss the views of deputy chair Lord Berkeley and claiming all nine other review panel members…

The Presidential Commission set up to review the governance of the ICE has endorsed the new structure that comprises a compact Trustee Board with a larger, mainly advisory, Council.  But the Commission, headed by past-president David Orr, has recommended that the ICE review the balance of the 12-strong Trustee Board…

Highways England is standing firm on its decision to procure the £1.25bn Stonehenge tunnel as a single-stage tender, despite all UK tier 1 contractors refusing to bid the job.

A litany of failures ultimately combined to cause the collapse of the Florida International University (FIU) bridge onto a live highway, according to the official investigation into the accident. Key companies and organisations involved in the project were criticised in the final report into the collapse published by the US National…

The long-awaited Conservative Party General Election manifesto has been launched with no backing for High Speed 2 (HS2).

Few civil engineering businesses are now ignorant of the world of data. Industry 4.0 is happening. Businesses need to digitise to survive.

Paul Sheffield is a civil engineers’ civil engineer. He has worked all over the world on all kinds of projects. And now, as President, he is determined to get the profession focused on doing what it does best: building things well.

When it comes to adopting technology in the infrastructure sector, the scale of the challenge is clear. It is not even anecdotal. In a 2018 survey of over 500 industry decision makers globally running $1bn-plus projects, only 16% believed the infrastructure sector was evolving fast enough to keep up with…

Above and below ground, innovations being deployed on the Eole project in Paris are giving a very clear view of how future tunnelling projects can be delivered.