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…
Ofgem has proposed a £3.4bn funding package and fast tracked Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2), the offshore electricity interconnector cable between Scotland and England.
EGL2 is an “electricity superhighway” connecting Peterhead in Scotland with Drax in England with 525kV, 2GW high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cable. Project promoters National Grid…
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…
Norfolk County Council has reacted angrily to guidance from Natural England which the council says blocks its plans for a major £274M road project in the county.
The Norwich Western Link scheme, which will see a new 6.2km dual carriageway built to the west of the city, had its outline business…
The prime minister has made commitments to “secure the future of the UK’s thriving defence and civil nuclear industry” including partnerships with BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, EDF and Babcock to invest £763M in the workforce by 2030.
In a statement on 24 March, the government said domestic nuclear capabilities are vital to…
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…
United Living Infrastructure Services (ULIS) has been awarded a new contract to deliver fuel line works at Manchester Airport Terminal 2.
This work has been awarded under the Manchester Airport Storage and Hydrant Company (MASHCo) project, also known as the Crosslink Project. ULIS is part of United Living Group, a construction…
Network Rail and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) are working to determine the cause of a void opening up near a derailment which took place in Cumbria on Friday 22 March.
Four passengers and four members of staff were safely evacuated from the train which derailed at Grange-over-Sands on the…
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…
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