Infrastructure
Engineering and interdependency
Engineering and Interdependency Expert Group
The National Infrastructure Plan (‘NIP’) states that “Government’s key role is to specify what infrastructure is needed, to identify the key barriers to achieving that investment and to mobilise the resources, both public and private, to make it happen”. A number of public sector actions and interventions are identified through which it might fulfil this role, for example: developing new education courses and research facilities, offering grants to SMEs, providing investment incentives within regulatory frameworks, implementing an efficient planning regime, establishing briefing forums with industry.
The purpose of the Engineering and Interdependency Expert Group (EIEG) is to bring together expertise from industry, academia and the public sector in a single forum to ensure that these actions and interventions are effective and coherent based on a long term and cross-infrastructure analysis of:
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the complexity of interdependency (both within economic infrastructure sectors and across to social and natural infrastructures) and the opportunities to realise integration benefits and manage systemic risks, and
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future infrastructure requirements, the technological and engineering change required to deliver this, and innovative opportunities for delivery and value creation.
The EIEG is overseeing a workplan which has the following deliverables:
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To assess and report on systemic risks and opportunities in infrastructure;
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To develop a roadmap of engineering challenges and decisions in future infrastructure, and identify where UK innovation can deliver new skills and value creating platforms;
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To work with Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance to identify critical interdependencies that impact on infrastructure investment needs; and
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To bring together and improve the quality of data held in relation to economic infrastructure.
The report on systemic risks and opportunities in infrastructure is available on the Froniter economics website:
You can contact the EIEG through its Secretariat at eieg@hmtreasury.gsi.gov.uk
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