Costain Group PLC

Over the next few years, the construction sector will witness a wave of infrastructure projects (£60 billion of spend each year over the next decade) and ground work will be undertaken to set future financial settlements. The pace of this growth, and the size of this opportunity, demands a construction sector that is the best in the world. To maximise the...

This project aims to make the link between Digital Roads and Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) a reality. Working with the vehicle supply chain, we will carry out a pilot to demonstrate the effectiveness of an Open Mobility Services Platform (OMSP) to make real time information seamlessly available to CAV. The corresponding in-vehicle systems will u...

This project aligns with Theme 5 - 'Operations', with a particular focus on Traffic Management. Its purpose is to provide Highways England’s operators with a virtual advisory assistant, identifying issues across the Strategic Road Network in real-time and flagging them for further analysis by Regional Control Centre Operators. This will help to alleviate ...

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"Costain and BrydenWood's longstanding and innovative partnership is leading disruption of the traditional design/engineering services marketplace through the development of an integrated suite of tools to automatically design the infrastructure of the future. Our vision is for a **'data-centric infrastructure design process'** that will reduce the time a...

"Current methods that predict pollutant emissions by estimating the number of cars on roads are highly inaccurate. This is because the real-world emissions per vehicle cannot be trusted, as the recent VW scandal has demonstrated. Nearly 40 million people in the UK are living in areas where illegal levels of air pollution from diesel vehicles risk damaging...

"The project, by targeting the productivity gap caused by construction equipment fleet - which represents major cost elements in most construction projects- is entirely aligned with the ISCF, in particular with the main theme of improving performance through digitally enabled solutions. The proposed solution is scalable and adaptable across the industry (...

In 2016, there were more than 233,000 cancelled rail journeys in the UK out of a total of 7.2 million planned journeys (Office of Road and Rail - ORR, 2016). The majority of these disruptions were caused by asset failures and unscheduled maintenance on the rail network. As a result, over £28 million was claimed by passengers from operators for service dis...

Driven by the need to reduce traffic congestion and accidents on our roads, the development and deployment of CAVs (connected and autonomous vehicles) will provide significant societal benefits, as well as business opportunities for the the automotive, comunications, infrastructure and transport sectors in the UK. Demonstrating CAVs on road, in real-world...

The rail industry is growing fast but passenger experience within stations is often poor, particularly for the disadvantaged. But, without engaging passengers to innovate and develop solutions, the track record of success are low. The project, led by Milne Research with Costain, IBM and Institute for Manufacturing, aims to solve this problem by developing...

The collaboration between Iknaia, SenSat and Costain will give infrastructure projects a highly accurate, real-time digital copy of the physical environment with real-time asset tracking and recognition. This innovation will help public infrastructure projects to be delivered efficiently, cheaper and with less environmental impact. It will do this by allo...

Carbon dioxide is a major greenhouse gas and methods of capturing these emissions from power stations and industry are being developed. Studies have shown that without capturing our carbon emissions it will be very much more expensive to meet our decarbonisation commitments. However the changing mix of power plant and growing role of renewable technologie...