Crossrail as catalyst

Posted on: 23 April 2014
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Future of London has published a report which examines how London communities can grasp the regeneration potential of Crossrail stations and of future infrastructure projects. Presentations are also available to two seminar held earlier in 2014. The first seminar, “Maximising Crossrail: The experience so far” held on 30 January 2014 , and the second, “Maximising Crossrail: Is collaboration the catalyst?”, held on 25 February 2014.

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Infrastructure 2014: Shaping the competitive city

Posted on: 23 April 2014
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The quality of infrastructure systems, including transportation, utilities, and telecommunications, is the most important factor influencing real estate investment and development decisions in cities around the world, according to a survey of public sector and private sector leaders conducted by the Urban Land Institute and Ernst & Young.

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Projected infrastructure starts and completions in 2014-15

Posted on: 22 April 2014
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This paper lists infrastructure projects and programmes which currently have projected start dates for 2014-15, including some projects which have already started in this financial year. 

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Carbon reduction in infrastructure

Posted on: 9 April 2014
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The Institution of Civil Engineers’ Low Carbon Life Panel have developed a slide pack to enable carbon to be considered as early in the project as possible, reducing cost, enhancing resource efficiency and reducing carbon.

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The Urban Infrastructure Initiative: Final report

Posted on: 9 April 2014
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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development Urban Infrastructure Initiative (UII), a major 3-year global project, has published its final report, demonstrating the value of early collaborative engagement between cities and business for sustainable development. The UII mobilized multi-sector, expertise from 14 leading companies to help 10 cities around the world identify  innovative and effective solutions to realize their sustainability visions. While the UII was a pilot project that worked with a relatively small number of leading cities, this new report summarises the evidence, particularly the perspectives of city leaders, that suggests that the early strategic involvement of business can be of real benefit to any city administration aiming to advance sustainability.

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Strategic infrastructure: Steps to operate and maintain infrastructure efficiently and effectively

Posted on: 9 April 2014
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This report from the World Economic Forum is intended to serve as a “roadmap” for directing governments and other stakeholders to the critical success factors in infrastructure operations and management. It does so by providing a comprehensive framework, actionable lessons learned and more than 200 real-life examples and case studies. The framework and recommendations can be applied broadly in developed and developing economies, and across many sectors of economic and social infrastructure. The best practices are collected from infrastructure assets that are delivered under public or private modes, or under public-private partnerships (PPP), and can likewise be applied to all kinds of delivery modes. The report is not a compendium of the whole infrastructure  life cycle: it excludes initial design and construction, and takes those decisions as a given; and, its focus is exclusively on operations and management and end-of-life-cycle  decisions of existing assets (including rehabilitation, upgrade and replacement), as project origination and preparation have been covered in the initiative’s previous reports. 

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Built Infrastructure for Older People’s Care in Conditions of Climate Change (BIOPICCC) Toolkit

Posted on: 8 April 2014
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The BIOPICCC Toolkit provides a series of resources to assist local authorities, partner organisations, and neighbourhood and community groups with local level resilience planning. Specifically, the resources are designed to support users to develop plans to make health and social care services for older people (aged 65 years and older) more resilient to the effects of extreme weather.

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Airport Outlook: Ports, airport and global infrastructure: United States

Posted on: 18 March 2014
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This study reveals that airport-near real estate in the USA is commanding high rent premiums in mature logistics corridors, while the opposite can be said for emerging markets. Seaports and airports appear to be competing, which is impacting rents around some of the nation’s busiest airports.

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HS2 Plus

Posted on: 17 March 2014
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Sir David Higgins, when he became Chair of HS2 Ltd, was asked by the government to undertake a review on maximising the benefits of HS2 and managing costs. He has carried out a review of the cost estimates for constructing Phase One and confirmed they are right. Sir David’s report also proposes to deliver benefits, particularly benefits to the Midlands and the north, more quickly. The report sets out a clear proposal to accelerate construction so that the Crewe section of Phase Two would be completed by 2027, not 2033, and to build a new integrated hub station at Crewe. Sir David also makes recommendations about connectivity in the midlands and the north.

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The Crossrail effect

Posted on: 14 March 2014
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Research from Hamptons International has analysed activity and prices along all stations on the Crossrail line to identify its current and projected impact on local housing markets. An article in the Daily Telegraph also looks at the impact of the London Overground rail line on the housing market.

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