Foster + Partners will formally submit a proposal for a new hub airport in the Thames Estuary in July. The company will provide details of the scheme to the Airports Commission, the organisation investigating airport capacity in the UK led by Sir Howard Davies. The airport is part of the proposed Thames Hub, a new four-runway airport with capacity for 150m passengers – and with future expansion capacity to six runways – built on a platform on the Isle of Grain in the Thames Estuary. Foster + Partners says the airport will “enable the economy to benefit from our maintained global hub status”....
APM is pleased to announce that EC Harris senior project manager Barbara Chomicka will take to the speaker podium at the APM Project Management Conference in London on 13th June.Barbara, who joined EC Harris in May 2010, has a background in the design and delivery of complex, high-profile mixed-use and aviation projects. Barbara provides global leadership across the IACCM construction and engineering community promoting areas such as industry-specific research, mentoring, program development and many other points of value related to the global construction and engineering sector.Her body of...
The APM Project Management Conference, with a long-held reputation for agenda setting content featuring some of the world’s most influential and thought provoking speakers, have added two more inspirational names to the already impressive speaker line-up.Opening the conference will be one of Britain’s best known psychologists; Professor Richard Wiseman. Joining Richard at Kings Place in London on Thursday 13th June will be Bechtel programme director Bill Henry.Award-winning Richard Wiseman (pictured right) holds Britain’s only Professorship in the Public Understanding of Psychology at...
The High Court is due to rule later today on legal challenges to the Government's £33bn HS2 high-speed rail project.Judgment is being handed down by Mr Justice Ouseley as HS2 opponents dispute the consultation process and challenge the assessment of environmental impact.The first phase of HS2, linking London and Birmingham, looks to be operational by 2025. The second phase of the project that extends north from Birmingham in a Y-shape to Manchester and Leeds aims to be running by about 2032-33.Chairman of this highly publicised and debated project has been confirmed as a speaker for the APM...
Chairman of the highly publicised and debated rail network High Speed 2 (HS2) has been confirmed as the first speaker for the APM Project Management Conference 2013.Doug Oakervee CBE (pictured) will be taking to the podium on Thursday 13th June at the award-winning Kings Place venue situated around the corner from King’s Cross station in London.With a long and distinguished career working on major infrastructure projects Doug is in a ideal position to answer the question being asked at the APM Project Management Conference 2013; what now for project management?The conference, called simply...
Research commissioned by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) shows that individual government departments currently have more than 100 major maps which relate to policies and programmes on the economy, transport, communications, housing and the environment in England. However, as of yet there is no single place or data source within government that makes all of these maps available to view together.The Confederation of British Industry has estimated that even before new infrastructure becomes operational, the building of it will generate £2.84 to the economy for every £1 spent, of which...
DateWednesday 13th February 2013Time5.30pm Registration and refreshments6.00pm - 7.30pm Event VenueETC, 57 North Wharf Road, Paddington Basin, London W2 1LACostAPM members:Employees of APM corporate members:Non members:FreeFree£10.00Presented byMartin Samphire and Brian WernhamThis event is fully booked. To join the waiting list please click here. Poor governance is a major factor behind the failure of programmes and change in organisations. The West Coast Mainline rail franchise procurement failure has been widely publicised and reported upon by the National Audit Office (...
Pegasus Link Constructors, a joint venture from Balfour Beatty and Fluor, has been named as the preferred bidder on The Texas Department of Transport’s Horseshoe interstate highway connection project in Dallas.The £500m project will see Interstates 30 and 35 in downtown Dallas connected and the construction of two new bridges.The firm is responsible for the design, construction, utilities and right of way for the project and construction is set to begin this year.This article first appeared in Project magazine. APM members can read all feature articles from Project magazine over...
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AECOM has been selected to provide general engineering consultancy services for local roads and drainage projects in the south of Qatar.The technical and management support services provider was awarded the work by the country’s Public Works Authority (PWA), as part of the larger $14bn programme to develop the city’s infrastructure.John Dionisio, AECOM chairman and chief executive officer, said: “This is an exciting time for Qatar and its residents. Our talented team of transportation experts takes great pride in collaborating to solve the challenges that a project of this scale and...
Road projects were the biggest winners of the chancellor’s Autumn Statement in December, as George Osborne announced that an additional £5.5bn would be injected into infrastructure.The chancellor announced that £1.5bn would be invested into Britain’s roads – £1.2bn before 2015 – in a number of schemes including the widening of the A1 to Newcastle, the dualling of the A30 in Cornwall and construction of the A5-M1 link.Several other schemes, announced as part of Prime Minister David Cameron’s initiative to cut red tape on projects, will also benefit from the investment in roads. These include...
