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The long term role of cars in towns
An opinion piece by Mike Davis, Consultant Engineer at E4Tech, and Jo Garvey-Rae, Senior Cost Manager at Turner & Townsend, both members of the Commission’s Young Professionals Panel. The last 12 months has seen a renewed recognition that some towns and places are being left behind, both in terms of productivity and wider quality of...
Can local energy planning help solve ‘double challenge’ of net zero and levelling up?
An opinion piece by Cissie Liu, senior regulation analyst at SSE Plc and Mike Davis, chartered engineer and a senior consultant at E4tech; both members of the Commission’s Young Professionals Panel (YPP). Background The Commission’s YPP has committed to explore decarbonisation and levelling up as our two key themes for 2021, as both have a...
We must press the accelerator on transport decarbonisation
An opinion piece by Caroline Bryce, Asset Management Adviser at Mott MacDonald and member of the Commission’s Young Professionals Panel. The UK announced its sixth Carbon Budget earlier this year, committing to reducing emissions by 78 per cent by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. The government expects to achieve this target through investing and capitalising...
How infrastructure can help counter infection
An opinion piece by Monica Laucas, drawing on conversation with Chelsea Stefanska, Global Health Security Specialist at Mott MacDonald I recently discussed with Chelsea Stefanska, a Global Health Security Specialist at Mott MacDonald, how epidemiology can influence infrastructure design and how infrastructure can be retrofitted to be pandemic resilient. “As an infectious disease epidemiologist, it...
Young infrastructure professionals test top ten proposals for driving change
Our Young Professionals Panel considers the government’s National Infrastructure Strategy and Budget and puts forward its top ten recommendations in response to the Strategy and the Commission’s recent Annual Monitoring Report.
Engaging younger generation with transformation of UK’s infrastructure goal for next YPP
The ten new members of the National Infrastructure Commission Young Professionals Panel meet for the first time today with a remit to build a stronger voice for younger infrastructure creators and users in the Commission’s work, at a time of increased focus on infrastructure as a key engine of economic recovery. Meeting virtually as a...
Fresh ideas to help infrastructure serve a changing society
Three-day rail season tickets to support flexible working, designing transport hubs to encourage safe post-pandemic social interaction, and securing better air quality through design are just some of the ideas proposed by young infrastructure professionals as part of a programme run by the National Infrastructure Commission. The Commission’s inaugural Young Professionals Panel (YPP) was appointed...
Young pioneers sought to help shape UK’s infrastructure
Do you want to support the Commission work and help it to be the UK’s most credible, forward-thinking and influential voice on infrastructure policy and strategy? If the answer’s yes, then the Commission wants to hear from you. It is now actively recruiting members for the next Young Professionals Panel (YPP). From finding innovative ways...
Dealing with disruption: a YPP perspective on resilience
From safe water from our taps, to how we heat and light our homes, to the transport we use to get to work, our infrastructure provides the backbone of modern UK society. For many of us, this is something we take for granted but every so often the system is stressed or disrupted. What is...
A generational perspective on infrastructure
Millennials spend all their money on Netflix, Ubers and takeaway coffees. We’re card-carrying members of the snowflake generation. We stay living with our parents for longer, join the workforce later and languish in seemingly eternal adolescence. We’re glued to our phones – more concerned with our curated and self-indulgent online worlds than the reality of...
Freight: a Young Professionals Panel perspective
Young people benefit from the UK’s freight industry – but they are also concerned about its impact. So, the Young Professionals Panel welcomes the Commission’s freight study Better Delivery: the challenge for freight and its recommendations to address this. A wide range of factors drive freight movements in the UK, including moving items we all...
Young Professionals urge the next generation to share their vision for infrastructure
The National Infrastructure Commission’s Young Professionals Panel (YPP) today invite young people to share their vision for the future of infrastructure in the UK, as they mark one year on from their establishment. Having pledged to ensure the next generation have a strong voice in infrastructure decision-making, the Panel are launching an initiative which will...
Young Professionals hope to “spark discussion about infrastructure among the next generation” as they launch new podcast
The National Infrastructure Commission’s Young Professionals Panel (YPP) today launch their new podcast, Infra[un]structured, with the aim to “spark discussion about infrastructure among the next generation.” The series will explore how infrastructure connects with people’s daily lives and the way rapid technological change is triggering shifts in our behaviour. Each episode, the host, Charlotte Mitchell...
Young Professionals set out their stall to hear the infrastructure views of the next generation
The National Infrastructure Commission’s Young Professionals Panel (YPP) today pledged to ensure the “next generation have a strong voice in infrastructure decision-making,” as they set out details of their first project. The Young Professionals announced plans to undertake an exciting piece of research on how generational shifts are altering the demands on the UK’s infrastructure...
UK’s top young infrastructure professionals selected to sit on new advisory panel
Architects, engineers, designers and energy specialists from across the country are among the 16 founding members of a group chosen to help shape the UK’s infrastructure. The National Infrastructure Commission’s Young Professionals Panel, launched today by Commission Chair Sir John Armitt, has been set up to inform the Commission’s work and give a strong voice...