All Infrastructure market reports 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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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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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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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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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?
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FeaturesInfrastructure update: Energy transition
The 2020s will be the decade when the foundations of the UK’s energy transition to net zero are established. What is involved in this transition, and how are things progressing?
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FeaturesInfrastructure update: Carbon capture and storage
Carbon capture and storage will play a vital role in meeting the UK’s emissions reduction targets. Agnieszka Krzyzaniak and Tim Cooper of Arcadis consider how close the UK is to large-scale application of this technology
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FeaturesInfrastructure update: Our hydrogen future
Interest in green hydrogen has escalated rapidly, so what are the benefits and challenges of this highly sustainable energy technology and what would a hydrogen revolution mean for the built environment?
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FeaturesGlobal infrastructure: Aviation
What can cost, time and functional metrics tell you about delivering a capital programme in the aviation sector? David Crewe of Turner Townsend explains why it makes sense to reach beyond the traditional measures of development efficiency
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NewsEstuary airport option ‘would be worst polluter’
Consultant says Foster plan would produce 63% more CO2 in 35 years than Constellation plan
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FeaturesHigh Speed 2: full speed ahead
High Speed 2 is a project people love to hate. But it would reduce train overcrowding, boost business and pump billions into the construction industry
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FeaturesAll change: The rail sector
The rail sector is embarking on a journey of disruption, change and uncertainty, with Network Rail’s transformation at the centre of it all. But having dodged the worst of the spending cuts, the sector could become a highly sought-after destination – for those who can handle the risk
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FeaturesMarket overview: waste and water sectors
With regulation driving investment and resource efficiency in the waste and water sectors, Matthew Hicks and Andrew Wheeler of Davis Langdon examine how the UK’s obligations are going to be met, and what the opportunities are for consultants and contractors
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CommentWaste and water markets: Filling the gap
In our latest infrastructure market report we explore the hidden worlds of water and waste
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FeaturesDavid Penfold on Sainsbury’s waste strategy
David Penfold is a driven man: he has to cut Sainsbury’s waste to as close to zero as possible. And given the amount of activity that the store engages in, he needs good ideas and even better suppliers.
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FeaturesFive best countries for water infrastructure work
Over the next 10 years, mankind will spend £500bn on water works. Chloe Stothart picks the five best countries to look for your share of it
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FeaturesOn the menu
With the private sector still subsisting on scraps and the non-infrastructure public sector just grateful that its provisions weren’t cut any further in the emergency Budget, the infrastructure market represents a veritable feast at the moment. So welcome to the latest in our infrastructure market reports
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FeaturesInfrastructure markets: saving grace
If there was one sliver of comfort in the Budget, it was that there were no further cuts to infrastructure spending. Victoria Jackson of Davis Langdon surveys the work that will be on offer in the years ahead