Rethinking infrastructure: CPM’s keynote lecture series launches for 2017-18

Our keynote lecture series for the coming academic year launches on Tuesday 3 October, welcoming Professor Raymond Levitt of Stanford University to share his thoughts on the political, economic and technological forces that have shaped the construction industry, and the challenges and potential opportunities these present.

The role of infrastructure in society, and how we deliver massive infrastructure projects, is continually evolving to respond to our ever-changing needs.

CPM’s keynote lecture series brings together leading practitioners, academics and professionals in the project management, infrastructure, economics and construction fields, to share their wealth of experience and spark discussions around the future of infrastructure.

The series’ 2016-17 theme was The Business of Infrastructure, and featured talks from major figures in national infrastructure delivery and management including Sir John Armitt, Terry Hill CBE and Mark Thurston.

Developing this theme, our 2017-18 programme of events - titled Rethinking Infrastructure - will consider new approaches and innovative perspectives on infrastructure, focussing on three key areas:

• Projects - examining radical new approaches to managing and financing large scale infrastructure projects
• Prospects - considering the potential for infrastructure to develop solutions for the problems of the future
• Prosperity - exploring the ways in which infrastructure is fundamental to building a sustainable, prosperous society

• Watch lectures from our 2016-17 keynote series on our Youtube channel