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Shaft tunnelling for water pipe installation spares 200-year-old rail line

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An innovative tunnel boring shaft technique has enabled Northumbrian Water to lay a new water pipe under a 200-year-old railway without disruption. 

Northumbrian Water’s partner Mott MacDonald Bentley successfully used the underground tunnelling method which allowed the pipes to be laid underneath the Bowes Railway Company Hauler site near Durham, which…

South West Water names 15 partners to deliver £2.8bn programme

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Bam Nuttall, Aecom and Mott McDonald-Bentley JV are three of the 15 companies appointed by South West Water to support its delivery programme over the coming five years.

South West Water recently announced its new business plan for Asset Management Period 8 (AMP8), up to 2030, which will see it upgrade…

Green light for £100M Bristol water recycling centre upgrades

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Wessex Water has received full planning permission for its £100M plans to upgrade infrastructure that will improve water treatment in the Bristol area.

Work will commence next year on constructing more storage and processing infrastructure at the water recycling centre in Avonmouth, which treats sewage and wastewater from Bristol, South Gloucestershire,…

Work to start on £10M Peterborough storm tank project

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Anglian Water's @one Alliance will start work on a £10M storm tank at its water treatment works in Peterborough this month as part of a £27M investment in water infrastructure in the area.

The @one Alliance features Anglian Water Asset Delivery, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Mott MacDonald Bentley (MMB), Sweco, Skanska and…

Plea to upgrade England’s flood defences as ‘poor’ condition revealed

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Campaigners have demanded action after research revealed that thousands of flood-protection assets in England were deemed to be in bad condition.

A Freedom of Information request from the investigative arm of action group Greenpeace showed that, of England’s 64,000 “high consequence” flood defences, 4,200 were rated “poor” or “very poor” by…