The government has launched a consultation about implementing the "Action Plan", which it issued in February, to make improvements to the nationally significant infrastructure planning regime.
There are two preliminary points of praise. First, the officials and ministers who have been working hard have clearly sought to prepare a plan which gives increased…
At the end of July, government announced the price list for statutory biodiversity credits and they are pretty eyewatering – but what lies behind this and what are the implications?
From November this year – the precise date is still to be announced – or spring next year for smaller projects,…
London Gatwick Airport’s planning application to bring its existing northern runway into routine use has been accepted for detailed examination by the Planning Inspectorate.
The northern runway is currently only used when the main runway is out of action, but the plans would see it made available to run routine flights…
Atkins has collaborated with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) on a “digital toolkit” that estimates the embodied carbon associated with airport construction.
There are tools available in the market to measure carbon in buildings, however the newly launched solution, comprising three data-based tools, is specific to aviation. It is also…
The UK government has enabled a financing package of €422M (£373M) for infrastructure projects across Zanzibar, Tanzania that will be driven by UK exporters.
The financing was underwritten by UK Export Finance (UKEF), the government’s export credit agency. The package will enable a historic upgrade of Pemba Airport – the smaller…
The deadline for the TechFest Awards has been extended to Friday 21 July, giving potential entrants just under two weeks extra to submit their entries.
Celebrating innovation in civil engineering and construction, the awards will be held in the evening after TechFest's daytime conference on 23 November at Hilton London Bankside,…
Specialist lifting firm Mammoet used a variety of techniques to assemble and install the new seismically isolated roof structure at Portland Airport in the United States amid active runways and without disrupting services.
Portland Airport is scaling up to serve an expected 35M annual passengers in the coming years and is…
The Climate Change Committee’s (CCC’s) confidence in the UK meeting its decarbonisation and net zero goals post-2030 is “markedly less” than it was a year ago and it has pointed out a wide range of holes in the government’s policies for achieving them.
The CCC is the UK’s independent adviser to…
The European Commission has awarded £55M (€64M) for the development of full design documentation for the planned first section of Poland’s multi-billion Euro high speed rail project.
Centralny Port Komunikacjyny (CPK) will see transfer hub built between Warsaw and Łódź, which will comprise of a new airport and several high-speed railway…
Putting female role models in the spotlight is a key part of today’s International Women in Engineering Day, which is now an annual event, and NCE is relaunching an initiative to ensure women remain in that spotlight throughout the year.
NCE is inviting women engineers to put themselves forward to join…
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