The Canal and River Trust has appointed Arcadis, RSK and Geotechnical Engineering to provide technical expertise on maintaining its assets amidst the “growing challenge of climate change-driven storms and floods”.
The Canal and River Trust said it has put in place long-term framework contracts allowing it to call upon these companies…
Thames Water’s shareholders will not provide the £500M equity investment that had been promised by 31 March as conditions for the company’s turnaround have not been met.
The UK’s largest water company is struggling with borrowings of nearly £19bn while it has promised to spend £18.7bn during asset management period 8…
London’s new £4.5bn super sewer, Thames Tideway, has completed all construction with the lifting of a 1,200t concrete lid to cap off the project’s deepest shaft.
The lifting of the 24m-wide lid at Abbey Mills Pumping Station marks the full completion of heavy civil engineering works for the project. Now this…
New Environment Agency data showing a significant increase in sewage spills in England during 2023 has been variously described as “unacceptable”, “squalid”, “outrageous” and “a shitshow”.
The Environment Agency’s newly published event duration monitoring (EDM) data for 2023 shows a 54% increase in the number of sewage spills in England compared…
Construction of the £16M South Bank Watercourse drainage system at the Teesworks freeport site has been described as a “huge engineering feat”.
Extending up to 8m in depth, it will provide drainage to more than 260ha of development land at the site. The project’s core features a 1.6km long watercourse through…
Construction of Northumberian Water’s new £155M, 57km water mains through the north east of England is gathering pace with the announcement of a road closure for pipelaying works to be conducted.
Working on behalf of Northumbrian Water, contractor Farrans started constructing the Project Pipeline: County Durham and Tees Valley, in November…
Balfour Beatty, Skanska, Mott MacDonald Bentley JV and more have re-committed to Anglian Water’s @one Alliance to deliver £2.6bn worth of investments as part of its asset management period 8 (AMP8) strategy, which takes place between 2025 and 2030.
The utility company says it is part of its “largest ever” package…
More than a quarter of the UK’s flood-defence structures will be at risk of failure by 2100 due to rising sea levels, according to a report from materials supplier Aggregate Industries.
The report, True Cost of Coastal Erosion to the UK, analysed current geological and geomorphological factors, the human and economic…
A £30M project to construct a research facility looking into sustainable solutions for the UK’s water infrastructure has been completed by Aecom and Morgan Sindall.
The Aecom-led project, with Morgan Sindall handling construction, has seen the completion of the Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste (Creww) at University of…
The Welsh government has announced the new flood and coastal defence schemes it will invest £34M into over the coming financial year (2024-25).
As well as this, the Welsh government has announced it is matching last year’s funding for Risk Management Authorities with a further £75M. The Flood and Coastal Erosion…
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