A new generation of infrastructure is beginning in the United Kingdom. As investment increases, the country’s infrastructure leaders and stakeholders can consider four relatively simple changes that our experience suggests will lead to immediate improvements in delivery. In 2025, the UK government announced a ten-year strategic plan to invest at least £725 billion in public infrastructure and launched the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) with a mandate to improve project planning and delivery.1“Decade long Infrastructure Strategy to deliver stability, investment and national renewal,” UK Government, June 19, 2025. (The project pipeline was valued at £718 billion as of March 2026.2Infrastructure Pipeline, National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority, March 2026.) This mandate extends across public-sector capital investment and an updated approach to private capital partnering with the government to deliver infrastructure projects.…