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Today's entry reports on the launch of a new
government-sponsored infrastructure forum.
On Sunday, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander MP
announced at a Liberal Democrat conference fringe event organised
by the Infrastructure Alliance that a new infrastructure forum
would be launched later in the autumn: the National Infrastructure
Plan Strategic Engagement Forum, or NIPSEF. The event was
either called 'Avoiding the Infrastructure Crunch:
Getting Britain Building' or '... Getting Britain
Working', reports vary.
The Infrastructure Alliance is an apparently ad hoc group formed
of the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE), the Association for
Consultancy and Engineering (ACE), the Civil Engineering
Contractors Association (CECA) and the Construction Products
Association (CPA), and supported by training body CITB Construction
Skills. That's quite a flurry of initials, each involving
construction or engineering. NIPSEF will be co-chaired by
Danny Alexander and each of the four bodies in rotation, starting
with Nelson Ogunshakin, Chief Executive of ACE. It will be
launched at the ICE on 29 October.
As can seen by the bodies involved, NIPSEF will mainly focus on
the delivery end of infrastructure projects in the National Infrastructure Plan. Having said
that, NIPSEF's aims are not confined to construction:
continuous strategic dialogue;
monitoring progress against NIP delivery and suggesting any
necessary remedial action;
ensuring government is aware of industry views on NIP;
advising on barriers to the delivery of NIP and on
mitigation/removal of these barriers; and
disseminating the Government and Forum's work to industry
on the NIP.
Perhaps, then, it might be interested in participation by NIPA,
the National Infrastructure Planning Assocation, and I understand
that an approach may be made.
At the event Danny Alexander also said that there had been over
40 expressions of interest in the 'UK Guarantees' facility
being brought forward through the Infrastructure (Financial Assistance)
Bill.
The alliance is having events at the Labour (2 October) and
Conservative (8 October) conferences as well - I wonder if the
alliance will pull any more rabbits out of the hat.
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