Browsing: infrastructure

Ed Miliband has unveiled plans to cut regulations, costs and bureaucracy by the end of next year to speed up the development of nuclear power generation.The…

Israel’s bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure will have major long-term environmental repercussions, experts have warned, as monitors admitted they were struggling to keep track of the…

Islamabad, Pakistan – A fire that tore through a shopping centre over the weekend in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, has killed at least 23 people, including…

Seventy metres down, in deep incognito beneath a disguised ventilation shaft in the Chilterns countryside, lies HS2’s buried treasure: two 10-mile tunnels, built to avoid an…

Authorities order emergency imports of electricity as people struggle in subzero temperatures.Ukraine’s energy minister has sounded an alarm over the energy situation as Russian strikes ​on…

Long-awaited plans for better railways across the north of England have been given government backing with an undertaking to “reverse years of chronic underinvestment” by spending…

The opening of the long-awaited Leeds tram system has been pushed back by at least two to three years, after a government review of the £2.5bn…

Overbearing health and safety rules are stopping Britain building new infrastructure, according to the economist whom Keir Starmer has cited as an inspiration for his growth…

When people picture a school library, they still imagine rows of dusty books and students whispering behind tall shelves. But that image of silence couldn’t be…

The conversation then turned to the transformation of infrastructure into a technology-driven growth engine. David Lamming, Chair of Europe and Middle East at Plenary Asia, noted…