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
