The Infrastructure Podcast

Mar 31 2025 109 ep. 31 mins 10
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A new regular podcast series which features conversations with some of the key leaders and influencers from across UK infrastructure sector.

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Sponge cities to tackle urban flooding with Lee Pitcher MP

Mar 31 2025 35 mins  
Today's podcast is another special episode recorded live in front of an audience for the second of the latest Twin Talks interview series hosted by Bentley Systems. As with the first TwinTalk event with construction minister Sarah Jones MP, today’s episode heads to Parliament for a conversation with Lee Pitcher, MP for Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme, chair of the all Part

ALARM25: the local roads crisis with David Giles

Mar 24 2025 30 mins  
In today’s podcast takes a close inspection of the UK’s ever-deteriorating local roads condition. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the ALARM survey – the Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance survey – which for three decades has been the crucial benchmark for assessing the state of local roads across England and Wales. Commissioned by the Asphalt Industry Alliance

Planning: decoding the Bill with Robbie Owen

Mar 17 2025 29 mins  
In today’s podcast we return to the vitally important, hugely complicated and normally highly emotive subject of planning reform. And help is (potentially) at hand in the form of the long awaited Planning and Infrastructure Bill which was published last week and heralded by government as providing “transformative reforms to get Britain building, tackle blockers and unleash bill

Embodied carbon assessment with Adrian Campbell

Mar 10 2025 33 mins  
In today’s podcast we take a deep dive into embodied carbon and try to get a better understanding of why infrastructure professionals need to make its assessment more than just a nice add on but a fundamental part of the design process. The construction and infrastructure sectors are undergoing a major transformation as the industry seeks to reduce its carbon footprint and meet g

Retrofitting: the future of housing with Anna Moore

Mar 03 2025 35 mins  
Today we head back to the vitally important issue of housing and attempt to understand the UK’s complex, and some might say, largely dysfunctional housing retrofit market. It is a market that is rapidly evolving, driven by ambitious government policies, rising energy costs, and increasing public demand for sustainable, lower cost living. But with a housing stock that is among the

The affordable housing crisis with Anette Simpson

Feb 24 2025 35 mins  
In today’s episode we dive into the UK’s deepening housing crisis– specifically looking at affordable housing where demand is still far outstripping supply. Despite ambitious government targets to deliver 1.5 million new homes over the next five years, the reality is that we are still only seeing 50,000 to 60,000 affordable homes being built each year - far short of the estim

Beyond academic with Jeni Giambona

Feb 17 2025 34 mins  
In today's podcast we explore the role that academia and research can and must play in transforming infrastructure into the modern, joined up, innovative sector needed to deliver a sustainable future for communities. My guest is Jeni Giambona, Associate Dean of Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise at the University of Southampton Business School, where she is also a Professor and a Me

Parliament’s infrastructure insider with Mike Reader MP

Feb 10 2025 36 mins  
In today’s episode we head back into the corridors of power to talk to Mike Reader Member of Parliament for Northampton South and chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Infrastructure. And after my recent conversation with Sarah Jones MP, minister of state for Business and net zero it will be interesting to contrast this government view of the nation’s infrastructure amb

The 100th episode with Construction Minister Sarah Jones MP

Feb 03 2025 39 mins  
In today special 100th episode we shift to the heart of the UK government to hear first-hand from Construction Minister Sarah Jones MP about how she intends to embrace and accelerate infrastructure investment as a means to deliver the government’s overarching mission for economic growth. The podcast was recorded live in front of an invited audience of professionals at last week�

Modern contracting with Katy Dowding

Jan 27 2025 35 mins  
Today's podcast is episode 99 and we are going to talk about the challenge of modern contracting. There is no doubt that we are in a world where infrastructure investment is well and truly back in fashion. That’s true whether we are transforming our energy future, racing to meet a net zero goals, improving lives and community, protecting the environment, solving the housing crisi