Terry Morgan's ouster as chair of HS2 and Crossrail comes as the latter London tunnel line faces a new $2.5-billion budget hole and a likely finish beyond 2019.
The government now plans to use different mechanisms to attract an estimated $380 billion of private investment into its long-term infrastructure pipeline.
Managers of a 90%-complete, 646-bed hospital in Liverpool will take charge of the project after unravelling a public-private partnership with the contractor Carillion Plc, which collapsed ignominiously in January.
Covered with sail-like transparent solar screens, the new U.S. embassy building in London is literally a sparkling addition to the brownfield area of the city.