This week's podcast celebrates the 150th episode by delving into one of the most urgent and complex issues that continues to challenge the UK construction sector – namely the critical shortage of skilled workers.As we know, government pl...

In this week's episode we are seeking a new year parliamentary progress update to discover how 18 months of government infrastructure ambition is actually being turned into real economic and social growth potential. To help me with ...

In this week's podcast we’re talking about the tricky challenge of safely managing and disposing of the UK’s expanding stock of nuclear waste. Creating a Geological Disposal Facility.For more than 70 years, the UK has benefited from nucl...

In today's podcast we talk about skills and the challenge facing contractors to build a productive workforce fit for the future. The UK is in the middle of a huge moment for infrastructure. Government has committed to a long-term na...

In today’s podcast we explore the power of investment in infrastructure to change and improve people’s lives - every day.  My guest is David Porter, the newly installed 161st President of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a man...

We kick off the Infrastructure Podcast for 2026 by talking about nuclear power and taking a close look at the much discussed - and much anticipated - small modular reactor programme being developed by Rolls Royce SMR.My guest today is

In this last episode of 2025 we once again look at Canada’s infrastructure market to compare and contrast the global scale of investment ambition on that side of the Atlantic.As such, it is my pleasure to welcome Jennifer McKelvie, Membe...

In this week's episode we’re taking a close look at the New Hospital Programme, a programme which has been described as perhaps the most ambitious National Health Service infrastructure investment in decades.The NHP programme is tasked w...

In this week's episode  we are once again discussing data, digital tools and the use of artificial intelligence and the way that it’s set to transform infrastructure performance.My guest today is Nathan Marsh, Senior Vice Preside...

In this week's episode we’re diving into the world of digital ground movement monitoring – a rapidly evolving field that’s quietly transforming how we manage, maintain, and future-proof our critical infrastructure.Emerging into this mark...

This episode was recorded live at the recent Transforming Infrastructure Performance summit held in Toronto, Canada in October and hosted by Bentley Systems. I’m joined by Divya Shah, Managing Director of the Trade & Transportat...

In this week's episode  we take a look at airport development and specifically how, contrary to popular believe, it can actually positively benefit local communities.To do this we are going to focus on Luton Rising, the community-ow...

This week's special episode is a live recording in front of an audience in the newly revamped main gallery at the Building Centre in London. My guest is Baroness Hilary Armstrong of Hill Top, Chair of the Independent Commissi...

In this week's episode we focus on New Towns and specifically the government’s on-going ambitions to tackle the UK’s housing crisis through the creation of a new generation of communities across England. Now Britain’s housing crisis...

In this week's episode we’re taking a closer look at infrastructure’s use of data – how emerging digital technologies and AI tools are shaping and transforming the way we manage our built and natural environment.To help me I am joined by...

In today’s episode we turn our attention to architecture and its role in shaping not just our buildings and infrastructure, but the society, environment and communities that are created by our built environment.To tackle this challenging...

In today's episode we take a close look at the investor’s perspective on the UK’s infrastructure market — and, in particular, what the landmark Final Investment Decision on the new Sizewell C nuclear power station tells us about the appetite, t...

In today's episode we tackle one of the construction sector’s most persistent and costly challenges: productivity.The UK construction industry is under huge pressure as it copes with economic pressures, a shrinking workforce and a pipeli...

In today's podcast we are talking about bioenergy and specifically looking at how carbon capture and storage is set to transform the technology.The UK’s net zero energy transition is firmly underway and one of the most promising new tech...

In today's episode we’re talking about steel — but not in the usual way. My guest, Ben Holmes, is Head of Sustainability at Elliott Wood, the structural and civil engineers behind, amongst many other things, 30 Duke Street, the UK’s...

In today's podcast we dive into the rapidly evolving world of infrastructure investment — a space that has moved from the periphery of specialist portfolios to the centre of global capital markets.Once the preserve of a relatively narrow...

In today's episode we’re diving into cement – a material that underpins every road, every railway, every school, hospital, bridge, and home we build.Because without it, the UK’s infrastructure ambitions would, quite literally, crumble!

In today's bumper post summer special episode we return to the HS2 project - infrastructure’s poster child for delay and cost overrun – as we discuss the content of a brand new book examining how this project went, as the title suggests, so bad...

In today's episode we revisit the subject of project commissioning - a vital, often underestimated stage of infrastructure delivery. What is commissioning – well in a nutshell it’s the complex process of preparing an asset to operat...

In this episode we’re focusing on the management of nuclear waste; one of the most complex, long-term, and often misunderstood aspects of the UK’s energy future.Because while nuclear power is increasingly seen as a vital part of the tran...