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Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has convened the first meeting of a new British Infrastructure Council, which will consider ways to boost infrastructure investment.

As COP28 comes into focus, when world leaders and policy makers will once again grapple with the challenge of limiting global temperature rises to the 1.5°C ambition, it is important for us to take stock as an industry on what progress we have made in reducing the carbon cost of…

There has been plenty of talk about the UK’s planning system, and this will no doubt continue as we reflect on the Autumn Statement, fuelled by the National Infrastructure Commission’s (NIC) recently published assessment, which calls for a significant increase in infrastructure investment across the UK.

Non-destructive testing (NDT) is often overlooked in day-to-day life but underpins much of the modern world. From the train you take to work, to the power station generating the electricity for your morning cup of coffee or the planes that fly you to your holiday destination, there is a group…

Engineers on High Speed 2 (HS2) have revealed innovations that utilise on-machine technologies to improve earthmoving processes and allow real-time digital concrete testing during transportation.

Writing in New Civil Engineer in August, I made the case for why we need to keep infrastructure apart from politics – lifting it up above political cycles to reduce uncertainty and better enable successful delivery and positive outcomes for society.

As net zero 2050 deadlines and their interim 2030 targets draw closer, the global structural engineering community is stepping up to meet the challenge of decarbonising the built environment.

Waterman Group has released its Materials Passports Framework to standardise the construction industry’s approach to documenting and managing materials through their lifecycle.

We’re now seeing the Building Safety Act move from plans to action – an event no longer merely on the horizon, but instead looming large as a focus for all involved in the built environment.

A coalition of London businesses has written to the chancellor urging him to commit to a capital funding settlement with Transport for London (TfL) in order to “keep the capital moving, so that it can drive growth, investment and job creation that benefits the UK as a whole”.