This non-technical ‘think-piece' examines aspects of infrastructure project evaluation, concentrating on circumstances that may render a standard cost benefit analysis (CBA) inappropriate. It is designed to make infrastructure investors and planners think deeply about their assumptions and to...

This paper describes and analyses the recommendations of the government’s covid-19 advisers, with particular emphasis on their use or otherwise of cost-benefit analysis (CBA). In respect of Professors Baker and Wilson, their views markedly fluctuated: on whether mitigation or elimination was...

Green building councils, and the rating tools they operate, exist largely to provide clear market signals to consumers, industry and the government on green building claims. The relationship between green building councils, the rating tools, and the market is built on trust with the market...