Editor's Comment
Getting more from less: how to survive the recession
Delivering more for less is without question going to be the mantra for the civil engineering and construction industry over the next half decade - and perhaps beyond.
Legal column
Viewpoint: Avoiding the dispute explosion
Amanda Henton on how swallowing pride can save money on expensive disputes
John Armitt
Viewpoint: Sustainability marathon
Olympic Delivery Authority chairman John Armitt on meeting sustainability targets
More opinion
Viewpoint: Harder, better, faster, stronger
Network Rail’s investment projects director Simon Kirby talks performance
President’s question time
ICE president Paul Jowitt addresses some important questions being asked by ICE members.
Viewpoint: Making high speed work
Professor David Johnson on how engineers must offer leadership which is immune from party politics.
Viewpoint: Our public voice
ICE’s Steve Feeley on how we should be turning up the volume to make a difference.
Viewpoint: QUEST- supporting our young talent
ICE’s Quentin Leiper on lending a hand to young civil engineers who are just starting out.
Viewpoint: The value of assets
Brian Fitzpatrick highlights the importance of compliance and performance in highways maintenance
Viewpoint: Ensuring the future
ICE’s David Lloyd Roach on how in order to maintain the industry, we must look after the future
Viewpoint: Tsunami lessons
Arup’s Jo de Silva on how construction professionals have much to offer international disaster relief efforts
Blogs
Transport minister heralds new golden age of the road?
2010 - year of doom, or new era of road building? Well, something to cling to anyway.
John's Blog - Cameroon part 1
John Heelham is on placement in the city of Kumba, in the south-west province of Cameroon, working for Engineers Without Borders UK (EWB-UK) with help from the Royal Commonwealth Society of Cameroon to improve clean water supplies in remote areas.
Keeping a lid on wind
Delivering efficiency in offshore wind.
Stockholm - Final Day
Royal Haskoning’s renewables market manager for the UK and Europe Bev Walker is attending EWEA European Offshore Wind Conference in Stockholm.
Offshore: money flows in
Proceedings have kicked off with a bang at this year’s European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) European Offshore Wind Conference in Stockholm - the big news being the call for investment into wind energy and a change of tack by the member states who are upgrading their policies to make investment more attractive.
Stockholm - day one
Royal Haskoning’s renewables market manager for the UK and Europe Bev Walker is attending EWEA European Offshore Wind Conference in Stockholm.
Stockholm - day two
After yesterday’s political speeches and pledges, it was a relief to finally get down to some hard engineering business today. Having a European-wide overview was enlightening as Day 2 has focussed very much on lessons learnt to date, and innovation and technology.
The sun's shining so get on your bike – but only if you're capable
With two days left in May and barely three weeks to the summer solstice, blazing sunshine has finally arrived in the capital - and with it the predictable plethora of “fair weather cyclists”. Should we be encouraging this hapless freewheeling amateurs?
The Great M25 mystery
According to a plethora of signs around the motorways of the south east, the £5bn widening of the M25 starts on Monday - so why do we know nothing about it?
