Barhale has been awarded mains replacement contracts under Thames Water’s seventh asset management period (AMP7) Conditional Allowance Trunk Main Schemes at sites next to Victoria and Euston stations.
The civils and infrastructure specialist said it will use innovative methods to minimise disruption to busy urban areas affected by both schemes. At…
Public sector procurement authority Scape has appointed Kier, Mclaughlin & Harvey and RJ McLeod to its £4bn frameworks designed to help utilities companies progress infrastructure projects through a direct award model.
The new direct award utilities framework for England, Wales and Northern Ireland is worth £3bn and was awarded to Kier…
Campaigners have handed a petition to the Prime Minister’s residence demanding sea defences to protect Hemsby, a Norfolk village north of Great Yarmouth, from coastal erosion.
According to a statement from Save Hemsby Coastline, nearly 17,000 people signed the petition, which was handed in at 10 Downing Street on the morning…
Portsmouth City Council is seeking a contractor to construct a £22.3M coastal defence scheme at Ports Creek.
Coming under the remit of the North Portsea Coastal Scheme, the contract is for the construction of phase five of the project to deliver a flood and coastal erosion risk management scheme located to…
The River Thames Scheme (RTS) has called for candidates to come forward to deliver 8km of new flood channels along with new biodiverse open space for the public.
Planned for one of the largest unprotected developed floodplains in England, RTS has widespread local support as it seeks to create a nature-positive…
Sea defences in Selsey, West Sussex, could undergo a significant upgrade if a bid from Chichester District Council to the Environment Agency is successful.
At its full council meeting on 23 January, Chichester District Council approved a business case to send to the Environment Agency which could secure funds to “develop…
33 projects across the UK have been awarded £33M by the UK Government’s fourth clean maritime demonstration competition (CMDC4) to accelerate the decarbonisation of the country’s ports and shipping industry.
The total funding awarded under the four CMDCs has reached £128M and comes from the wider £206M UK Shipping Office for…
Over the past two decades or so, we have witnessed more extreme storm events due to climate change, leading to increased rainfall intensity and more frequent consecutive storms. In New Civil Engineer on 9 January 2024 there was an article under the heading ‘we can’t engineer our way out’ of…
The mayor of London has penned a letter to Thames Water’s chief executive lambasting the company for its part in sewage spills causing the capital to lose its last “healthy, clean” river.
Sadiq Khan’s letter was sent as new City Hall figures were released that show instances of sewage flowing into…
Scottish Water has appointed BPD Zenith to provide asset management transformation services as part of a six-year £5.8bn strategic maintenance and improvement plan.
In line with government and regulatory expectations, Scottish Water launched a six-year investment programme aimed at making improvements to Scotland’s water and wastewater infrastructure in 2021. The programme…
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