APM News

The Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) has launched a new academy to support the delivery of major government infrastructure projects, with a framework that includes APM qualifications and standards.

Ensuring great collaboration between project team members is hard enough without having contracts and procurement processes in the way.

Repairing Cumbria Bridge-by-Bridge.

An interactive session, held on 22 March 2021, on stakeholder engagement, featuring insights from a panel of experienced academics and practitioners.

After a few false starts, a project to replace legacy systems at Allianz morphed into something more ambitious.

Charities like Rewilding Britain thrive on the passion of their volunteers to make projects on a shoestring happen.

The planned opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza later this year marks an internationally important event for a country that’s also enjoying a project boom, reports Emma De Vita.

Do major government projects – from long-running epics like HS2 and HMS Queen Elizabeth to unanticipated new arrivals like the government’s furlough scheme and the vaccine roll-out – represent good value for money? Why do some end up late, over budget or beset by operational problems, while others seem to progress with barely a hitch? And ultimately, how can all such projects be better managed in the future? These are, by any standard, important questions, albeit tricky to answer.

Jon Ager, programme director at the British Antarctic Survey, reports from an ambitious modernisation programme in Antarctica (leopard seals, international rescues and Boaty McBoatface included).

In summer 2020, Project investigated the race to find a COVID-19 vaccine.