Immediate investment in the capital’s infrastructure could boost the UK economy by more than £33bn per year and alleviate the growing housing crisis. A report commissioned by London’s Mayor, Sadiq Khan, from Swiss-based analysts Greenwood Strategic Advisors, shows investment in projects in the capital could add 400,000 new jobs and a “similar number” of new...Read More

Now the world is falling out of love with the internal combustion engine, is the time upon us where society can resume its fond affair with the humble tram? Absolutely, says EIX’s Peter Jarman FRSA. It only takes a moment’s Googling to find enthusiasm for trams has never gone away. These days this is not just...Read More

by Graham Ross Have no doubt about it, Scotland is ambitious. Brave too –bold plans are emerging to create a true 21st-Century, carbonless, super-connected, intellect-driven economy and the infrastructure to run it on. Scotland has many of the tools she needs to achieve this but she also faces enormous challenges generated by her characteristically extreme...Read More

With a stroke of a pen the Government could get insurance companies to pay for the regeneration of Britain and fill the massive funding gap in infrastructure investment. We need to spend billions on our housing, transport, energy supply, telecommunications and education, but government, quite simply does not have the money. All it needs to...Read More

The money involved in infrastructure is staggering, so why is so much of it unspent and uninvested, asks EIX’s Steve McDowell.   Nothing is small in infrastructure investment and that includes the sums of money involved – they just don’t get any bigger. Everyone involved in the infrastructure industry, from the nuts and bolts man...Read More

The answer to continuous and disruptive change in infrastructure decision making is to involve the public – says a report from the Institute for Government. The short-termist nature of politics and the long horizons of infrastructure planning and construction are incompatible and require a publicly accountable body to see them through, it says. National infrastructure...Read More

While it appears there was nothing in the way of new specific projects in the promised White Paper, it was heartening to see the word Infrastructure written large in the Government’s thinking. Designed to pull together ideas to increase UK productivity the 255-page document outlined five key areas in which the country needs to improve....Read More

With a stroke of a pen the Government could get insurance companies to pay for the regeneration of Britain and fill the massive funding gap in infrastructure investment. We need to spend billions on our housing, transport, energy supply, telecommunications and education, but government, quite simply does not have the money. All it needs to...Read More