The South West Infrastructure Partnership (SWIP) is a cross-sector infrastructure community established in 2017 by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) South West to create lasting value for the region by breaking down silos, sparking collaborative conversations and bringing people together to create an informed, coordinated regional voice on infrastructure.

Insights

By offering objective insights we support the community in shaping the whole infrastructure system. Read our recent posts:

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Initiatives

SWIP supports initiatives that bring together industry leaders. These include:

Beyond Brunel podcast
Climate Change and Net Zero
South West Vision 2050

Topics

SWIP works across a range of topics shaping infrastructure:

Circular Economy
Defence
Digital & Data
Economic Development
Energy
Government Policy
Innovation & Skills
Nature & Environment
Transport
Water & Waste Water

Community

SWIP is powered by its community. Read what our community members say:

Peter Kydd

SWIP has succeeded in bringing together senior infrastructure leaders across the region to break down sector silos, and share experiences.
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Paul Smith

SWIP stands as a very rare organisation that embraces the whole business spectrum of civil engineering projects, sectors and geographies as well as the region’s environment and nature.
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Paula Hewitt

SWIP has created a safe space for different organisations to come together to address the challenge of climate change.
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Partners

SWIP works with partner organisations to foster cross-sector collaboration:

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Get involved

We’re building a cross-sector infrastructure community. Everyone with an interest in how the South West plans and delivers its infrastructure over the next thirty years can get involved.

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