The £4.2bn Thames Tideway Tunnel could have been smaller and cost less claims a new report by public spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO).
The report says that correcting inaccurate modelling predictions could have resulted in a ”smaller”, lower cost tunnel. However, the same report also acknowledges the government’s claim that…
Skills in coastal engineering are eroding, say those in local authorities. But out of these constraints have come creative partnerships.
Since the Coast Protection Act 1949 the management of England’s coast has been nominally split between what is now the Environment Agency (floodable coasts), maritime local authorities (erodible coasts) and private…
“High quality infrastructure drives economic growth, boosts productivity and raises living standards.”
“That is why we placed infrastructure at the heart of the Autumn Statement.” That is chief secretary to the Treasury David Gauke’s opening sentence in the introduction to an analysis published alongside the government’s National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline…
The water industry is currently going through a lot of change, and is faced with some fundamental challenges: ageing infrastructure, population growth, resilience and affordability.
“These are four really big challenges that the industry has to balance, and you’ve got the customers in the middle of it all,” says MWH chief…
Precasting is being taken to new levels in building France’s longest viaduct using some of the world’s biggest kit.
Shark gun? Check. Typhoon shelter? Check. Scuba gear? Check. Ravings of a madman? No, just the checklist for anyone heading out to work on France’s latest grand projet. Grand it most definitely is.…
Pipe manufacturer AquaSpira is helping Scottish Water keep programme length and disruption down on two major projects in Glasgow.
The Lancashire-based firm is supplying in excess of 500m of composite steel reinforced (CSR) pipe to contractors working on the Shieldhall Strategic Tunnel project and the separate Clarence Gardens SR15 scheme. In…
Plans for a £9M sewer pipe project to improve water quality in a Cheshire lake are have cleared to proceed without an environmental assessment, United Utilities has said.
In October last year a sewer pipe route was revised to avoid environmentally sensitive areas in Rostherne Mere, a site of special scientific…
Transport, energy and digital: all important infrastructure needs. But what about flood defence?
Disruption from flooding costs the UK economy £1bn per year. There are 2.44M properties at risk of flooding from rivers and the sea, another 3M more at risk from surface water flooding, and countless more at risk from…
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