Analysing a range of scenarios for how the use of public transport, broadband networks and utilities might change as a result of Covid-19 and regularly reviewing which trends seem to be playing out is the best way of avoiding policy paralysis in the face of huge uncertainties, according to the National Infrastructure Commission.

The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has confirmed that the UK’s second National Infrastructure Assessment will be published in the second half of 2023 and consultation and analysis to inform its recommendations will commence this autumn.

Three of the seven awards made at the Institution of Civil Engineers' annual Robert Stephenson awards this week which celebrate the top civil engineering projects from across the North East were for flood protection schemes.

Dŵr Cymru Cyfyngedig (Welsh Water) has taken the next step in the process of using Ofwat’s Direct Procurement for Customers to deliver a £100 million-plus construction scheme to provide long-term water supply resilience to Cardiff, Newport and several smaller towns located within the Merthyr Valley.

The Institution of Civil Engineers has launched a new consultation on the current state of the UK’s infrastructure planning system.

The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee is warning that the Government is simply not doing enough to protect the UK’s current housing stock from floods or stepping in to prevent new homes being built on flood plains.

The Regulators’ Alliance for Progressing Infrastructure Development (RAPID ) says the accelerated gate one submissions for strategic regional water resource solutions in Southern Water’s western area presented costs that were “significantly higher” than those published in the 2019 water resources management plan (WRMP).

Anglian Water engineers have completed work on a £9million scheme in Ludham, Norfolk that will maintain water supplies to 3,000 homes while protecting the precious environment of Catfield Fen.

 Tideway has completed the ninth and final shaft in the £4.2 billion Thames supersewer project.

Civil engineering and infrastructure specialist Barhale is to take the pioneering step of carrying out a set of simultaneous pipejacks from a single shaft at the North London Heat & Power Project in Edmonton.