Jerome Cachauininfrastructure & developmentThe road ahead: five infrastructure themes for the next decadesThe strategy of participants in the infrastructure market tends to be quite opportunistic in comparison to other sectors. Infrastructure, a…Nov 10, 20211Nov 10, 20211
Jerome Cachauininfrastructure & developmentSpirits in our material worldRecently, a friend and I were discussing what we grandiosely called “secular trends” in our field of infrastructure. The topic I picked was…Jun 29, 2021Jun 29, 2021
Jerome Cachauininfrastructure & developmentMaterials — part 1: the world in 2050: probably rich, certainly crowded and likely hungry for…We cannot start a discussion on sustainability (in the present case, with respect to material consumption) without looking at the forecast…Jun 29, 2021Jun 29, 2021
Jerome Cachauininfrastructure & developmentMaterials — part 2: material resources and the curse of prosperityAfter having discussed -qualitatively- the potential decoupling between resource consumption and economic growth, we might want to…Jun 29, 2021Jun 29, 2021
Jerome Cachauininfrastructure & developmentMaterials — part 3: waste management or the implacability of conservation lawsAntoine Lavoisier, the great French chemist whose head was so full of new ideas that the Révolutionnaires had to chop it off, once came up…Jun 29, 2021Jun 29, 2021
Jerome Cachauininfrastructure & developmentAirports: sic transit gloria mundi?Sic transit gloria mundi. Thus passes worldly glory. A moralistic aphorism once used to remind catholic popes of the job’s precariousness…Apr 2, 2021Apr 2, 2021
Jerome Cachauininfrastructure & developmentAirports — part 3: the new pariah?My previous article referred to a recent report issued by a collective of French aeronautical engineers, pleading for a containment -or…Apr 2, 2021Apr 2, 2021
Jerome Cachauininfrastructure & developmentAirports — part 2: insult to injuryIn my previous description of the airport industry, I have been using the past tense, as if the described episode of frenetic growth was…Apr 2, 2021Apr 2, 2021
Jerome Cachauininfrastructure & developmentAirports — part 1: a reasonable exuberance?Not that long ago, airports used to be the type of assets everybody was looking for, not only the usual infrastructure players …Apr 2, 2021Apr 2, 2021
Jerome Cachauininfrastructure & developmentInfrastructure and parsimony: constraint-driven or output-driven?An infrastructure project is basically an economic machine that transforms an input (the capital raised) into an output, namely the…Mar 12, 2021Mar 12, 2021