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After 16 months, my Hong Kong odyssey is at an end! This has been the 5th ‘i3P membership’ employer I’ve had since joining the industry back in 2006 (Laing o’Rourke, Crossrail, CH2M, Tideway and now Gammon) and it’s fair to say I think the industry has truly recognised the scale of the digital transformation challenge…

New rules which make the way housing developers pay money for infrastructure simpler and more transparent are being introduced, the government has confirmed. Builders already have to pay for roads, schools, GP surgeries and parkland that is needed so that areas can cope with the influx of extra residents. Now, housing minister Kit Malthouse has…

Commuters using the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) will benefit from “more frequent and reliable journeys from 2023,” after Transport for London (TfL) today announced plans to replace the oldest trains currently serving the railway. TfL has awarded the £350m contract to design and manufacture new trains to Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, S.A (CAF). The…

The government has today announced legally binding plans to cut UK carbon emissions to zero by the year 2050. The new target will amend the 2008 Climate Change Act, which commits the UK to reducing emissions by 80% by 2050, to the much more more ambitious goal of zero net emissions. The new legislation sets the…

Thanks to Alexa Grierson for launching our Gammon innovation programme yesterday at the fantastic Hong Kong ‘Construction Industry Technology Application Centre’ (CITAC). 55 of our innovation ‘scouts’ from across the Gammon business attended an engaging session, featuring our lessons of collaboration, inclusion and creativity (much of which we’ve learned on the job at Crossrail, CH2M…

Article from Adrian Malone, Head of digital project delivery and BIM  looks at how the rise in offsite construction and digital technology could together revolutionise how we create smart motorways – with increased focus on the people using them. Sometimes, rethinking what we already know in the light of what’s coming holds valuable answers. Construction…

Come to explore the most urgent problems facing infrastructure today – come away with collaborative ways to solve them. UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC) / Centre for Infrastructure Materials (CIM) Workshop Date: Monday 17 – Tuesday 18 June 2019 The National Centre for Infrastructure Materials (NCIM) is a collaboration between the Universities of…

Network Rail has launched the third procurement in its major digital railway transformation programme on the East Coast Main Line (ECML) – a potential eight-year deal worth £180m. The company is seeking a traffic management partner to work within its London North Eastern and East Midlands (LNE & EM) route on the first inter-city development…

  Thursday 27th June | WMG, Scarman House, University of Warwick Join Network +for their second Discovery Day and explore how supply chain management can revolutionise the future of UK construction. This Discovery Day will enable participants to experience, explore, and discuss the relevance of cutting-edge supply chain research at the WMG, University of Warwick. This…

Data Visualisation Design, Ambiguity & Decision Making in Megaprojects: EPSRC Studentship Project Details Megaprojects are socially and economically relevant modes of organising, used as preferred vehicles to deliver infrastructure and policy programmes worldwide. They are notoriously over-budget and beyond schedule, and have calamitous track records of benefit realisation. Notwithstanding their diversity in terms of characteristics…