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Future of Rail | Digital technology could revolutionise railway maintenance

How can new technologies and a systems approach improve rail infrastructure delivery…
Future of Rail | £1bn Core Valley Lines upgrade to help drive modal shift in Wales

Upgrades underway on South Wales’ Core Valley Lines will improve capacity and…
Innovative Thinker | Pay transparency key to closing gender pay gap says academic

The construction industry’s gender pay gap will not be bridged organically, says…
Future of Rail | Rail Baltica will add 870km to European high speed network

Work on the new high speed rail line across the Baltic States…
Future of Rail | High speed rail networks spring up worldwide despite engineering challenges

High speed rail projects are rolling out at pace worldwide, bringing unique…

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Future of Rail | Digital technology could revolutionise railway maintenance

Future of Rail | £1bn Core Valley Lines upgrade to help drive modal shift in Wales

Future of Rail | Rail Baltica will add 870km to European high speed network

Future of Rail | High speed rail networks spring up worldwide despite engineering challenges

Future of Floods | Back to nature approach improves flood resilience in Devon

Future of Floods | Low carbon concrete mixes tested in permanent works for Hexham flood defence scheme

Future of Floods | Is England’s planning system ready for mandatory SuDS?

Future of Tunnelling | Complex Tideway sewer connection makes progress at Blackfriars

Future of Tunnelling | Four High Speed 2 twin bores progressing well despite challenges

Future of Tunnelling | Key lessons from major tunnelling failures

Future of Energy | Hinkley Point C progresses towards final stages of undersea work

Future of Energy | Coire Glas pumped storage scheme will fill gaps left by other renewables

Future of Energy | How can nuclear and tidal energy help prevent a UK electricity shortfall

Future of Modular Construction | New prefab factory heralds transformation of housebuilding

Future of Modular Construction | Calculation issues hinder wider modern methods of construction adoption

Future of Roads | Cross Tay Link Road offers blueprint for low carbon procurement

Innovative Thinking

Innovative Thinker | Pay transparency key to closing gender pay gap says academic

‘Caterpillar’ shaft saves carbon and space on HS2’s west London site

Innovative Thinker | Balfour Beatty’s Steve Tarr advocates early supply chain involvement for major projects success

Researchers repurpose wind turbine blades as footbridge structure elements

Complex groundwater management aids Elephant and Castle ticket hall construction

Innovative Thinker | Barhale’s Martin Brown on how rail projects can learn from the water sector

Could plant derived material replace bitumen in asphalt?

Digital tools speed complex Texas interstate motorway upgrade

Why managing psychosocial risks benefits employers and employees

Material passports trial in London could trigger UK materials database creation

Could basalt reinforcement replace steel in infrastructure construction?

Innovative Thinker | Seequent director Pat McLarin on the importance of subsurface digital twins

Team behind UK digital utility map give insight into the collaborative project

Pop up factory for SMR construction could transform nuclear project productivity

Rail debate | How performance-based asset management can improve maintenance efficiency

Innovative Thinker | Laing O’Rourke’s Abigail Brierley on the need for female role models in construction

Big Interviews

Interview | Justine Greening says construction has a critical role in levelling up

Interview | UK Infrastructure Bank boss John Flint on funding net zero delivery

Interview | Programme management academic Bent Flyvbjerg identifies the ingredients of successful major projects

Interview | National Highways’ Michael Ambrose on rethinking road concrete use

Interview | HS2 Ltd’s Howard Mitchell challenges the way construction productivity is measured

Interview | New ICE director general Janet Young outlines her built environment experience

Interview | Transpennine Route Upgrade boss Neil Holm on progress and future challenges

Interview | Outgoing ICE director general Nick Baveystock reflects on his decade-long tenure

Interview | New ICE President Keith Howells to push for action on meeting UN Sustainable Development Goals

Interview | Canal & River Trust’s Malcolm Horne on protecting history while planning for the future

Inside Track

RMT claims 18 of 20 safety recommendations from Carmont tragedy not enacted by Network Rail

HS2 | Euston with only 7 platforms is not fit for the future network, experts say

Progress made on £42M plan to convert rail route from Channel Tunnel to Wembley for freight

Haddiscoe accident report calls for more collaboration between organisations on railway flood resilience

Government must ‘reconsider portfolio of expensive, complex road enhancement projects’

Government sets out five-year plan for boosting national resilience against climate change

NIC chair argues that maintaining a private water sector is the ‘right approach’

Government launches study into connecting HS2 services to Leeds

Government to reassess case for new Bradford station and improved Leeds connectivity

National Highways fights claims of greenwashing over Lower Thames Crossing hydrogen plans

National Highways’ £50M hydrogen strategy for Lower Thames Crossing will be a ‘catalyst for change’

How National Highways and partners used Project Speed to compile a robust DCO application for the £1.3bn A66 upgrade

How engineers worked at pace to restore Nuneham Viaduct in only 10 weeks

Inquiry into remediating use of ‘weaker’ concrete expanded to include UK’s wider public estate

Flooding from Ukraine’s damaged Nova Kakhovka dam will have long term implications

Call for Northern Metro mayors to undertake a Senedd-style roads review for the North