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The government has announced plans to provide £135m to help progress the £771m A66 TransPennine upgrade. The funding, revealed in today’s Budget announcement, will help kickstart work on the scheme and accelerate the start of construction to 2024. Budget documents said: “This builds on the Spending Review 2020 announcement that the construction phase will be halved from 10 to five years as part of Project Speed.” Highways England published an update on the road scheme in January, outlining progress with surveys and investigations to allow further consultation and engagement prior to a...

Picture by Andrew Parsons/No 10 Downing Street Prime minister Boris Johnson has warned that rail infrastructure will be under pressure and could become intolerable as lockdown eases, unless industry delivers projects faster. At the launch of Project Speed, a new taskforce previously announced by the Department for Transport (DfT) and Network Rail to encourage industry collaboration and innovation, Johnson said: “In a few short months, if all goes according to plan, we in the UK are going to be reopening our economy and then the British population will be consumed once again with their desir...

Rail Project Speed aims to halve the duration, and significantly reduce the costs, of rail infrastructure work.

Photo: Government Finance Function In the spotlight: Treasury’s public spending chief Cat Little on how Covid changed the finance ministry – and ministerial red boxes 23 Feb 2021 After an extraordinary year, Cat Little reflects on how the Treasury and government finance function met the pressures of a pandemic with innovation Cat Little was not planning to run a Spending Review from her house. The Treasury’s director general of public spending found out she was going to move from her previous role as chief finance officer at the Ministry of Defence in December 2019, with her sta...

By Stuart Maister 2020-12-22T06:00:00+00:00 Efforts to accelerate projects must start with culture not process, writes Stuart Maister If covid has accelerated history then in some aspects of the construction sector that may be a good thing. In 1994 Sir Michael Latham published the seminal report into the UK construction industry, Constructing the Team. Twenty-five years later his call for collaboration not confrontation and a healthier client/contractor relationship with ‘better rewards for a great industry’ still sound like an aspiration. Even before covid, contractor margins in th...