The UK Government has allocated £1.4M to fund eight projects focused on infrastructure climate change resilience.
The £1.4M will support eight projects supported by computational modelling that promise to reinforce infrastructure resilience against severe weather events. The projects all have a key focus on underground infrastructure including water pipes and electrical…
Institution seeks to highlight best practice in the development of resilient infrastructure and recognise those who develop the best solutions.
A new ICE initiative is to recognise those who are building resilient, sustainable and inclusive infrastructure. “Resilience Champions – building an inclusive and sustainable world” will celebrate individuals who put nature…
Work on Centre Port UK, billed as the world’s first tidal powered deep-sea container terminal, could commence in 2025, with completion planned by 2030.
Centre Port is a 18km, £2bn tidal barrage across The Wash, a bay in East Anglia, designed to link Lincolnshire to Norfolk. The project will feature the…
The UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) has been established as a permanent institution, having been passed into law today after receiving Royal Assent.
UKIB said the development places the bank on a statutory footing, confirming its long-term role in addressing climate change and supporting regional and local growth. It also means the…
The use of digital twins by infrastructure owners and operators to understand how assets work in a wider system is among the recommendations on enhancing UK infrastructure’s climate resilience included in a new ICE report.
The How can the UK’s infrastructure system be made more climate resilient? report includes several recommendations…
Recent weather events, like last summer’s record-breaking heatwave, show that we are feeling the effects of climate change right now.
If carbon emissions continue to rise unabated, the world is on a path to warm by at least 1.5°C between 2030 and 2052. Even with global pledges to mitigate emissions in…
The government is coming under mounting pressure to adapt the UK’s national critical infrastructure (CIN) to the risks of climate change.
Dame Margaret Beckett, chair of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) has said she is concerned the government is not treating the issue with enough “urgency”. In…
The UK needs a fundamental shift in its rail investment priorities to help slash carbon emissions in the transport sector, according to thinktank Greengauge21.
The latest report by director of the research group Jim Steer urges authorities to put climate change “centre stage” when deciding how to invest in the UK’s…
Infrastructure is the key that will unlock net zero. Those are not my words but I have said much the same in the past and the comment is one that many others in the civil engineering sector have also made previously. The words are those of MP and former energy…
Last year was recently confirmed by the Met Office as the UK’s hottest year on record, with an average temperature of over 10°C recorded for the first time. This cements the fact that our infrastructure is facing pressures that, for the most part, it was not designed to withstand. With…
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