Trustee’s view | How UK regions are influencing infrastructure decision making

As the Trustee for regions, I’ve been fortunate to attend events over the past year throughout the country, where I’ve seen firsthand how the ICE is contributing to infrastructure decision making and raising the profile of vital infrastructure in our communities. The post Trustee’s view | How UK regions are influencing infrastructure decision making appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

Call rejected for external audit into ballooning cost of Southport events venue

Calls for an external audit to examine the soaring cost of a £106m Southport Marine Lake Events Centre (MLEC) project have been rejected. Sefton Council revealed in June that the cost of the project had risen by 45 per cent, blaming material cost inflation and… The post Call rejected for external audit into ballooning cost of Southport events venue appeared first on Construction News.

Kennedy Center repairs were rushed, shoddy, whistleblowers allege

Work on its exterior columns and reflecting pool will need to be redone because of shortcuts contractors took to create cosmetic improvements in time for events featuring President Trump, according to the allegations.

Flood-prone property affordability trumps climate risk fears

New analysis from Cotality has revealed a striking affordability paradox within New Zealand’s housing market. Despite a recent and unprecedented surge in the severity and cost of extreme weather events, buyers are increasingly overlooking long-term flood hazards in favour of lower entry prices, causing flood-affected properties to outgrow the broader market in value. Cotality New […] The post Flood-prone property affordability trumps climate risk fears appeared first on Building Today.

The hidden infrastructure behind major sporting events

When tens of thousands of spectators gather for a major sporting event, most attention is understandably focused on the action taking place on the field of play. The post The hidden infrastructure behind major sporting events appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

Tideway London, TUNNEL VISION: Episode 14 - Festive Rewind

In the festive season, it's tradition to look back at events of the last year. Now 14 episodes into our series taking you behind the scenes on London's #SuperSewer - one of Europe's largest infrastructure projects - we're revisiting some of the best bits of Tunnel Vision with James and Daniel from our team behind the camera, over a year and half like no other.

How to prepare your contract for NEC3/4 weather events - An article by Luke Parham of GVE Commercial solutions

An update on the changes between how NEC3 and NEC4 deal with the risk of extreme weather.

LET’S GET METAPHYSICAL: MITIGATING THE CREDIBILITY CRISIS IN FORENSIC DELAY ANALYSIS - An SCL paper by Anders S Alexson

Over many years, the Society of Construction Law (UK) (SCL) and the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineers International (AACEI) have sought to codify, standardise and improve the methods used by the construction industry for the purpose of forensic project delay analysis. Some six SCL methods and thirteen AACEI methods of analysis (the ‘protocol methods’) have now been articulated, largely by distilling pre-existing practices from within the industry.

What are the must attend events in the industry?

How to determine the dominant cause of delay ? Is it simply first event dominates until overtaken and therefore substituted by subsequent events.

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