Infrastructure Projects to be discussed
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Infrastructure Projects to be discussed at One Great George Street, Home of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London in December.
Many of the UK’s most respected infrastructure experts, main contractors and asset owners meet in London next month to discuss the National Infrastructure Plan, announced by the Government in November last year.
The UK Infrastructure Conference (UKICE) is a two day meeting between the UK asset owners and operators (energy, transport, information and communication infrastructure, water and waste) and the main contractors, alongside the project investors to discuss the implementation of priority projects for 2013.
The event is designed as an unparalleled platform for central and local governments, businesses and leading experts to meet, discuss and source solutions for prioritisation, procurement and presentation of existing and future infrastructure projects across the country.
Projects presented at the event include:
- HS2
- Crossrail
- Thames Estuary Airport
- Widening of A14
- New Nuclear Build by EDF
- Waste-to-Energy Power Plant by Oxfordshire County Council
- Broadband Infrastructure from the Cornwall Development Company.
Held at the Institution of Civil Engineers at One Great George Street in Central London, on December 5 and 6, the organisers believe that as the UK’s first fully comprehensive infrastructure industry event focused on project implementation will become the private and public sector showcase for future UK infrastructure development.
Stanislava Blagoeva, MD of UKICE, said: “The conference will provide meaningful and valuable insights to the infrastructure market in the UK. UKICE is the only event where asset owners meet with industry regulators, government officials and main contractors, as well as infrastructure investors and financiers from all over the world.”
Over 100 projects from 39 regions of the UK and Wales will join the event
Full details of the conference programme can be found here.
The full list of top speakers at the event are listed here.
Said Blagoeva: “Gaining sufficient capital commitments for infrastructure projects in the current climate is perhaps harder than it’s been in living memory, and for many project owners the sad truth is the real barrier to success is not simply about the viability of the project itself, but managing to connect with the right providers of capital at the time they are thinking about allocating to regional infrastructure projects. This is of course easier said than done.”
She explained that traditional project financing is no longer an option for most of the market either.
“Balance sheets and appetite are dictating that the banks can only take on at best a quarter to perhaps a third of planned projects,” she said, “so logically hopes and expectations have shifted to the private investor where the £2 trillion under management in UK pension funds is being viewed as a potential capital source to be tapped, and a way to fill the funding gap.
“We believe the ability, and of course the opportunity, to effectively communicate the benefits and risk to return ratios of a specific project to a large number of those funds with dry powder will make the difference between a project’s success or failure.”