Manchester April 11th 2013 – How Transport is helping to Regenerate Manchester
Last chance to book; go to http://www.built-environment-networking.com/event/transport-infrastructure-north-west/. Come and listen to: Jon Lamont; Chief Executive Transport for Greater Manchester Jessica Bowles; Head of Policy for Manchester City Council John Twigg; Group Planning Director at Manchester Airport Group; Martin Jurkowski; Programme Sponsor for the Northern Hub for Network Rail, and Clinton Leeks; Director of Parliamentary and ...
Read more£2.5bn in New Capital Investment
George Osborne is set to announce around £2.5bn in new capital investment in the Budget, financed through departmental spending cuts. The prime minister’s spokesman said today that ministers have been told they will have to find an extra £2.5bn of spending cuts to fund capital investment projects included in the Budget. The prime minister’s spokesman ...
Read morePriority schools programme could progress more rapidly if early schemes are successful
The government’s £2.4bn Priority Schools Building Programme could be accelerated from its current schedule if early schemes progress well, officials have revealed. Mike Green, director of capital at the Education Funding Agency, said the delivery body will review the programme once procurement is under way on the first privately financed schemes to see if the ...
Read more£350m of RGF Funding is now available
The fourth round of the Regional Growth Fund (RGF) opens for applications today (17 January 2013) with £350m available. The RGF is worth £2.6bn over five years until 2016 and replaces the £2.4bn annual pot which was available to the former regional development agencies. Projects from the first three rounds have pledged to create or ...
Read moreNew Super Prison Plans announced
The government has announced plans to build a new prison that could house more than 2,000 inmates, the largest ever built in the UK. The announcement by justice secretary Chris Grayling came as part of a wider statement this morning on the prison estate, including the closure of six prisons. But Grayling also said the ...
Read moreConstruction will improve in 2013…
Chartered surveyors are predicting the UK construction market will “turn a corner this year” as output slowly increases. A survey by the RICS showed that last quarter 15% more surveyors across the country reported that they expect workloads to grow over the coming twelve months. This upturn is reflected in the small increase in reported ...
Read moreNetwork Rail has set out details of a £37.5bn five-year investment plan for the UK rail network.
Network Rail has submitted its strategic business plan to the Office of Rail Regulation for approval. If approved, the investment in new infrastructure will boost capacity at key pinch points on the network, providing 170,000 extra commuter seats at peak times by 2019. This is in addition to the HS2 project, which Network Rail said ...
Read moreCoalition Mid-Term Review promises on Infrastructure and Housing
They will further invest in infrastructure by: – expanding our railway programme to create an ‘electric spine’ from Southampton to Yorkshire, electrify the South Wales Valleys railways, establish a western rail link to Heathrow, invest in the Northern Hub and create enough capacity for 140,000 extra daily commutes at peak times by the end of 2019; ...
Read moreSocial Media in Construction – does it work?
To start with, I want to be clear, I am not a social media expert and Built Environment Marketing does not provide any advice etc on social media, this isn’t a sales pitch! I thought it was time for us to try out SM for our company, and I thought I would blog about the ...
Read moreThe call for new Reservoirs to be built
The Institution of Civil Engineers is calling for a new strategy to manage drought and flooding, which includes the construction of new reservoirs. Commenting on the news from the Met Office that 2012 was the UK’s second wettest year on record, the institution’s water expert, Michael Norton, said: “Extreme rainfall naturally diverts the focus away ...
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