Planning is becoming increasingly important across global construction, infrastructure and industrial technology, influencing how projects are visualised, coordinated, delivered and managed over time.
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From planning and design to field execution and asset management, this topic sits at the centre of digital change across the built environment, helping teams improve visibility, accuracy, coordination and long-term performance.
Across construction, transport and infrastructure, software skills have quietly become as critical as concrete strength or asphalt mix design. Engineering teams now manag...
Maharashtraβs ambitious push to upgrade rural roads and state highways is being shaped by a quiet but important shift in how transport infrastructure is planned. Instead...
In a bold move that blends aerial surveillance with urban planning, Helsinkiβs innovation arm is capturing traffic flows via drones in the cityβs West Harbour. Between 17...
In a bold stride for transport planning, TRL and the World Bank have unveiled HDMβ5, a complete reinvention of the venerable Highway Development and Management (HDM) mode...
As climate change accelerates, the threat of extreme weather events grows ever more pressing. For urban planners and policymakers, floods arenβt just an inconvenience any...
In a world where climate extremes are becoming the new normal, the safety and durability of infrastructure can no longer be left to chance. Recognising the urgent need to...
In a game-changing move for infrastructure planning and public policy, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has unveiled its 2025 Report Card for America’...
Roads form the lifeblood of modern society, yet their planning, construction, and maintenance have long been mired in inefficiencies and siloed workflows. Thatβs all chan...
Game-changingβ roadworks toolΒ hits the highway An automated roadworks planning tool is cutting connection times for customers, in a trial led by UK Power Networks.Β The co...
Shortly before Christmas, on 19 December 2023, the Government published itsΒ long-awaited revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework (βNPPFβ), following a year-lo...
New build homes are popping up across the country. These new homes are becoming the preferred property choice by a rising number of homeowners across the UK. Although hom...
Dysruptek, the Haskellβs corporate venture capital arm, invests in IPSUM a construction tech start-up originally from Latin America, now based in the US, who has been rec...
Sweco has been commissioned by the Swedish Transport Administration for the planning of the new section of the North Bothnia Line railway between Norra Tuvan and central...
The UK government has recently published a white paper titled βPlanning for the future. Within this, they outline extensive plans to transform planning permission laws. I...
GHD has announced that it has been appointed by Transport for London (TfL) as its Traffic Engineering Support Partner to support the delivery of feasibility and concept d...
Harwell, Oxfordshire: Vale of White Horse District Council has granted planning permission for the highly specialist facility that will house the UKβs Vaccines Manufactur...
The British government has announced it will relax planning legislation to make it easier to construct large batteries to store renewable energy from solar and wind farms...
CIRIA has published new guidance βDelivering better water management through the planning system (C787)β that identifies the critical factors required for successful inte...
Historically, individual departments within local authorities have tended to work in isolation. They have developed their own plans and strategies and then focused on exe...
Students in Architecture, Building and Planning have Fallen 19% in the last decade According to the report Patterns and Trends in UK Higher Education (Universities UK), i...
With Santa Cruz emerging as Latin Americaβs fastest growing powerhouse, Boliviaβs biggest city is struggling to control its exponential spread. Now a brand-new city is be...
and we are pleased that our work has contributed towards many of the goals identified in the plan. CIRIA has a long history of championing environmental issues and our co...
Highways England today renewed its focus on design with the launch of a set of design principles which will inform future road schemes β to ensure its roads better serve...
In the world of fine wine there was a time long ago when those with sophisticated palettes would harrumph and turn up their nose at the thought of sipping an American-pro...
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