The UK water sector is about to run its biggest live experiment in delivery capability. Not because anyone's short of ambition or money - in fact, quite the reverse.

As technical author of PAS 4010, I introduced the new standard designed to help improve productivity across the UK infrastructure sector.

GIRI Spring Members Meeting heard how the upcoming PAS 4010 and accompanying guidance will set out a shared system-wide approach to productivity, aligned with behaviours, that will be usable across the entire infrastructure value chain

It was a genuine honour to compere and deliver a keynote at Anglian Water’s first-ever whole-team Reservoirs Programme event - such a great group of people telling the story of such an inspiring programme.

There won’t be many headlines.

We promised something bold. On 3 March at Manchester Central, the UK’s infrastructure sector delivered. ICG Live was the inaugural conference of the Infrastructure Client Group, and I was honoured to organise and host it.

While the headlines focus on the political punchlines of tougher ovesight and new enforcement powers, tucked inside the new Water White Paper is a detail that may matter more than any fine or saction

UK clients will discuss the challenge at the inaugural ICG Live event in Manchester in March 2026

The construction industry’s leading luminary Sir John Armitt has this week called for an end to self-certification of construction work in a bid to drive out construction error. Is he on to something?

Eight clients, designers and contractors have become the first to commit to using fixed amounts of low carbon concretes in their projects as a catalyst for decarbonising the sector. A bold new world?

Civil engineers heard this week how the Transforming Infrastructure Performance philosophy of the built environment of a system of interconnected systems is alive and kicking. Is TIP back?

This podcast features me in conversation with Lewis Barlow, ICE trustee for carbon and climate, about the PAS 2080 standard. In a wide-ranging interview, he recommends ways in which PAS 2080 can the easily adopted

This paper, developed with UCL, examined how civil engineering delivers the UN SDGs. Reviewing 340 ICE publications, we mapped 1,363 links, finding the sector strong on synergies but weak on trade-offs and called on SDGs be embedded from planning

Past ICE President Paul Sheffield explains the key recommendations of the ICE's Building Safeguards report which sought to assess significant increases in safety risk in infrastructure since Grenfell and propose what the ICE should do about it

In this ICE Strategy Session I presented on the ICE review of safety risk management in civil engineering, highlighting the key recommendations from an 18-month study

Many badly worn highways assets require more urgent attention, warn expert contributors to State of the Nation 2025.

During this event I offered reflections and discussed tips from people in organisations being ‘regulated’; those that have had to get to grips with new duties, roles and approaches under the new regulatory regime.

We shared cutting-edge insights into delivering infrastructure sustainability with PAS 2080 at this ICE UAE hybrid event, which I was delighted to host.

AtTransforming Infrastructure Performance Singapore 2023 I joined Karina Singh of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) and Andy Hodgson, ARUP Global to discuss skills for the future

In this Tech Talk, Ed McCann, ICE past president and senior director at Expedition Engineering, and Carrie Behar, head of sustainability at the Useful Simple Trust, join me to discuss the journey to B Corp status