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Type: Awards and competitions

ICE STEM Ambassador of the Year: 2025 winners announced

Introducing this year’s ICE STEM Ambassador of the Year regional winners from across the UK, recognised for inspiring our future civil engineers.

Date: 05 June 2025

The participants and judges of the ICE Hong Kong Association Graduates and Students Division 2025 Model Building Competition. The large group of people is sat across various tiers of seating within a lecture hall of a university building. Two students hold up a large blue banner with the competition title on it in the background.

Type: Awards and competitions

Winners of Model Building Competition ride the wave of innovation

The ICE Hong Kong Association Graduates and Students Division (HKA G&S) challenged participants to design coastal structures resilient to tides and waves.

Date: 05 June 2025

A photo of an older couple walking their Labrador dog next to a river. There are other people and boats in the background.

Type: News

Current water system doesn’t work for anyone, independent commission acknowledges

The Independent Water Commission has published an interim report outlining the direction of travel for water sector reform.

Date: 03 June 2025

Inside Infrastructure

A photo of people queuing to board a green coach on the road in Nottingham, UK on a bright day with a few clouds in the sky.

Type: Infrastructure blog

Rewriting the rules: what does the Green Book review mean for infrastructure?

The UK government has confirmed it will change the guidance that shapes how public infrastructure investment decisions are made. The ICE unpacks what it all means.

Date: 12 June 2025

Type: Infrastructure blog

6 takeaways from the UK government’s 2025 Spending Review

Will longer-term planning support better infrastructure delivery? The ICE analyses the UK's first multi-year Spending Review since 2021.

Date: 11 June 2025

Guest blogger

A photo of a carbon capture and storage facility against a bright blue cloudless sky. The facility consists of mostly metal tubes circling around a large, tiered, circular tank.

Type: Infrastructure blog

How can the UK's National Wealth Fund succeed?

The fund can support growth and net zero, writes Richard Threlfall – but only if it’s supported to take on risk.

Date: 05 June 2025

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