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Tech Showcase: Arcadis uses data to help the water industry make crucial decisions

Andy Bolton — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 02:26:47 +0000

The growing frequency of extreme weather events is influencing UK water industry leaders’ asset management and investment strategies. In the UK, we historically just talked about flooding.

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UK water sector assessment shows that improvement is needed across the board

Rob Hakimian — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 05:00:23 +0000

An assessment of the UK’s water sector by Future Water Association, with input from over 100 stakeholders, shows that it needs improvement in all areas including asset health, sewers maintenance, innovation, research, leakage and more.

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Lighthouse | Rebuilding trust in troubled water industry is paramount

Andy Bolton — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 17:30:21 +0000

For some time the water sector’s to-do list has been extensive and challenging.

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Your View | Grenfell fire, water management, Stonehenge Tunnel, job hunting, Hexham flood defence

Andy Bolton — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 01:00:40 +0000

Main Point: Grenfell's internal fire spread Once again, discussion of the reasons behind the Grenfell disaster focus only on the inflammable cladding panels (NCE, July). However, in a report by Dave Parker in the August 2017 edition of NCE, it was spelt out very clearly…

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Innovative Thinker | Barhale’s Martin Brown on how rail projects can learn from the water sector

Sotiris Kanaris — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 04:30:41 +0000

Involvement of key stakeholders in early design stages is crucial for improved rail project delivery, says Martin Brown.

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Your View | Valuing water, onshore wind farms, Silvertown tunnel fire and cycling

Andy Bolton — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 03:00:18 +0000

Main Point The debate about valuing water raises many issues from a civil engineering perspective (NCE, last month). It speaks eloquently about the need to get together and value water holistically but then focuses only on public water supply with no mention about the increasing…

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Innovation Showcase | Stormtech does SuDS differently

Andy Bolton — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 22:05:00 +0000

Stormtech SuDS attenuation system targets the UK market

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The challenge of building more reservoirs to ensure UK’s water resilience

Rob Hakimian — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 05:30:44 +0000

The UK needs to start pushing forward with plans for more reservoirs if it is to remain resilient against the climate crisis, according to leading water experts.

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First water flows through United Utilities new £300M Cumbrian pipeline

Claire Smith — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:00:54 +0000

As South East Water announced its customers would soon be subject to hosepipe bans, households supplied by United Utilities gained a new water source as the firm’s 100km connection to Thirlmere reservoir was put into use for the first time.

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NCE at 50 | How predictions from 25 years ago stood the test of time

Claire Smith — Wed, 25 May 2022 01:15:05 +0000

NCE’s 25th anniversary supplement made predictions for what the world of civil engineering would look like in 2022 – how did those forecasts hold up?

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