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Companies need to ‘walk the talk’ on culture change

Quotas and targets are helpful, but real change means creating the right culture and behaviours.

Infrastructure collaboration faces legal and risk challenges

Construction law experts have warned that alliancing and collaboration face real challenges, though there are benefits to it being done well.

Increase public engagement to deliver true sustainability

Making global infrastructure truly sustainable will require rethink of the way the industry works. Peter Guthrie, professor of engineering for sustainability at Cambridge University, issued...

UK Grenfell disaster highlights importance of long-term legal and risk issues

Fenwick Elliott’s Nicholas Gould reminds legal experts that Covid-19 will fade as an issue, but that tragedies like Grenfell sometimes result from long-term problems that need addressing.

“For funders, infrastructure investment needs to be boring!”

Repeatable, predictable and dependable projects are needed to increase investor confidence. Industry leaders have spoken about the key need for certainty and predictability in infrastructure...

The money is there for infrastructure investment – it just needs...

Construction sector needs to be part of the conversation on infrastructure investment decisions at the highest level, say industry leaders. Construction and infrastructure and how...

Global infrastructure leaders find lessons in Covid and emergencies

The rapid global response to the pandemic has raised big questions for how the infrastructure sector responds to climate change and international development.

AfDB vice president: “We must avoid growing today and washing out...

Dr. Kevin Kariuki, warns that Covid-19 and the effects of climate change mean affordability and financing of infrastructure is more crucial than ever.

WEF president strikes optimistic note despite Covid and climate change

“While there are no silver bullets to solving our economic and environmental challenges, infrastructure may be as close to one as we get," says Børge Brende

“Sustainability disputes will certainly arise”

Vice President of the ICC’s Arbitration Commission, Nicholas Gould, tells IG that construction law needs to adapt and support greater clarity to avoid disputes holding sustainable infrastructure back.
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