Hugh & Ian Mulcahey

Biographies

HUGH MALCAHEY

With 20 years of experience in the property market, Hugh has gained extensive knowledge in corporate finance and Private Finance Initiative (PFI). He has advised FTSE-100 private sector firms and a wide range of clients in central and local government about efficient use of assets, rationalising their property portfolios, business case development, options appraisal, and risk management as well as providing thought leadership for professional organisations in the local authority property sector.

His expertise in economic and business analysis ensures he delivers financially sound and sustainable real estate solutions and is able to co-ordinate successful organisational change.

IAN MULCAHEY

Ian is the firm-wide leader of Gensler’s Planning & Urban Design practice area. He has 20 years experience in the design and implementation of complicated projects at arange of scales in the UK and overseas. He has a deep understanding of the competing political,commercial and social forces that influence plans. He will direct the planning team, utilizing creative strategies for the reconciliation of these forces during the consultation, design development, approval and delivery process to realise distinct, sustainable and successful proposals. He leads a multidiscplinary team of planners, architects, landscape architects, and urban designers who undertake a full range of national and international planning and urban design work to produce feasibility studies through to the planning and implementation of major strategic master plans.

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Abstract

Is there a relationship between the need for High Speed Rail and the need for High Speed Broadband?

Hugh Mulcahey, director of consulting at Cyril Sweet and Ian Mulcahey, head of planning at Gensler discuss ways the importance of the private sector in the delivery of capital projects.”

Key points: – An interesting aspect of the “credit crunch” is the stated objective of many governments to invest in infrastructure. The US, UK and China in particular have all stated that they intend to focus investment on upgrading their infrastructure as a way of providing continued economic stimulus. In the US the initial thinking by Obama has shifted from one of repairing crumbling roads to high speed rail. The sustainability bandwagon has finally arrived in the US. In the UK the two main party’s are each offering high speed rail and high speed broadband as future priorities. China is also using its extensive reserves to upgrade its infrastructure.

The question for the UK is whether the political pronouncements will ever be realised; or will they, like most other modern UK infrastructure projects, be starved of investment and bogged down in our ever more complicated planning and regulatory process.

Is there a relationship between the need for High Speed Rail and the need for High Speed Broadband? Is this our next industrial revolution, akin to the Victorian age of steam railways and telegraph.

What part can/should the private sector play in the delivery of transportation/energy systems?

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