10 Feb 2016
The winter droughts preceding the London Olympics of 2012 caused considerable concern. Lessons from around the world including this highly informative site on the California drought highlight the difficulty in managing water resources once the full scale of the drought has hit. Strategic Infrastructure and Water Resilience The Environment Agency has released a Strategic Infrastructure […]
11 Nov 2015
State of the Nation Scotland: Infrastructure 2015, focuses on the performance, resilience, capacity and condition of Scotland’s infrastructure networks. It also analyses the economic, social and environmental benefits of infrastructure. Through the report ICE Scotland seeks to improve the planning, delivery, operation and regulation of Scotland’s infrastructure. Scotland’s approach to delivering and maintaining infrastructure requires […]
15 Jun 2015
DECC Planning consent has been given for construction of the world’s first tidal lagoon, in a boost to moving towards a low carbon, home grown energy mix. If built, turbines in the proposed six-mile horseshoe shaped sea wall around Swansea Bay in Wales could generate around 500GWh per year of low carbon electricity. Separately from […]
08 Jun 2015
To see the Tidal lagoon Swansea Bay announcements go to http://www.tidallagoonswanseabay.com/ For the local take on this see the South Wales Evening news site: http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/Chinese-firm-line-300-million-Swansea-Bay-tidal/story-26627140-detail/story.html TLSB announcement on Rock Supply Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay Plc has announced the appointment of China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) as its preferred bidder for a marine works package that […]
27 Mar 2015
UK & Norway have signed a deal to start building a 730Km link that could provide 14% of the electricity used in homes each year. The National grid and Stannett and Norwegian Transmission system operator. £2bn deal. Landfall will be in Blyth http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2401655/uk-to-tap-norwegian-hydropower-through-worlds-longest-interconnector
24 Mar 2015
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is involved in different nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs) in the English inshore and offshore, and Welsh offshore areas under the Planning Act 2008. The Planning Inspectorate (PINS) examine these applications and provide recommendations to the Secretary of State. MMO acts as a: statutory consultee during the pre-application stage interested […]
17 Feb 2015
HM Government ‘The Infrastructure Act became law today (12 February 2015) enshrining new measures to make it easier, quicker and simpler to get Britain building. The act will allow the creation of Highways England, a government-owned company which will use access to long term stable funding to ensure improvements on the country’s major road network […]
27 Jan 2015
UK Gvt: ‘The proposed bill would improve how we fund, plan, manage and maintain our national infrastructure. The Infrastructure Bill would provide a £3.9 billion boost to the economy over the next 10 years by: improving the funding and management of our major roads streamlining the planning process for major projects protecting our infrastructure from […]
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