Environment
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Low carbon cities hold key to meeting climate change challenge
Green infrastructure is no longer a "nice to have" says Arup’s Tom Armour -
Infrastructure – design big and design long
Creating resilient infrastructure means responding to change now but crucially designing for changes in the future, says London Underground's David Waboso. -
Imminent dash to frack means it is time to talk sense
This year will see a dash to frack as a new UK licensing round kicks in. According to Azfar Shaukat, the UK needs more informed debate on shale gas, and soon. -
Properties must be reinstated as flood resilient say experts
Regulations needed to ensure flood repairs will withstand future inundation -
Government's new transport resilience committee could rewrite rail workload plans
McLoughlin hints that Network Rail’s £38bn CP5 programme could be rehashed to include extra infrastructure resilience -
Ten things I've learned over 10 years in green policy
The language of green; the complexity and the simplicity of policy; the incomprehensible scale of global opportunity. Matthew Farrow reflects on a sustainable decade. -
The infrastructure customer is always right.
Somerset floods demonstrate the critical need to remain in touch with the public's infrastructure needs -
Cities are stepping up climate change efforts C40 summit reveals
New research by the C40 climate leadership group and consultant Arup shows that world’s largest cities are taking more action than ever on climate change. Report and interview with lead author.