Around the world, engineers, project owners, and policymakers must make hard choices as they work to ensure our infrastructure is fit for the future. They must consider how climate change will impact those assets, and how those assets will help or hinder the energy transition.

This week, with the UK’s political conference season in full swing and a general election due next year, infrastructure is on the front page of every newspaper. In this guest episode, from the Connected Places podcast, Prof. Greg Clark CBE, chair of the Connected Places Catapult, talks to one of the world’s leading thinkers on infrastructure, Sir John Armitt.

Sir John is chair of the UK’s National Infrastructure Commission. The commission’s job is to provide the UK government with impartial, expert advice on major long term infrastructure challenges. Later this month the NIC will publish its second National Infrastructure Assessment (NIA).  

Resources

To learn more about the NIC and the upcoming Nation Infrastructure Assessment, due to be published on 18 October 2023, click here.

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