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“A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jewelled vision of a life started anew.” Aberjhani...

The first Budget of Boris Johnson’s majority government will be delivered on 11 March.  This government has vowed to focus on addressing the economic inequality between the South East and many first-time Conservative constituencies won from Labour, predominantly in the North and the Midlands, so what can we expect...

3D printed housing has slowly been grabbing headlines and this week the largest structure to date was built in Dubai by Apis Cor.  Dubai has plans to continue investing in this area and has a goal of 3D printing 25% of all of its new buildings by 2030...

The high street as we know it is up against it: our habits are changing and online shopping and e-commerce is here to stay...

In the words of Greta Thunberg: ‘we need everyone … if it’s not you who should do it, then who else? If not now, then when...

The Birmingham Transport Plan 2031, published on 13 January 2020, caused something of a public stir amongst locals...

At the Westminster Higher Education Forum policy conference on 11 December, we considered investment trends, smart and sustainable design and the changing face of learning environments in the development of university and college estates...

Whilst we perhaps may disagree as to whether Brexit is still “Exciting”, it is definitely still a “Disruptor”....

The availability of quality purpose built student accommodation (“PBSA”) is becoming an increasingly important factor for students when choosing their university...

At a time when our high streets are struggling and retail is undergoing huge disruption, the future of our city centres has never been more uncertain...

The Government has launched a public consultation on its plans to create a part to the building regulations requiring new buildings to be electric vehicle (EV) ready, as well as creating new legislation to implement the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive...

WSP hosted an interesting breakfast seminar on 11 July looking at Designing our Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles. The Electric Vehicles (EVs) market is growing and will only continue to do so as we get closer to the Government’s target of no new petrol and diesel cars being for sale from 2040...