The Environment Agency has defended its decision to continue its flood alert warning contract worth £19.5M to tarnished Japanese software company Fujitsu, despite its involvement in the Horizon Post Office scandal.
The Japanese IT giant is the subject of an inquiry to assess its part in the Horizon software scandal, which…
Isle of Wight Council has warned that further ground movement in Bonchurch, Ventnor, “cannot be ruled out” after the area was struck by one of its biggest ever landslides last month.
As first reported by NCE sister title Ground Engineering, the major landslide on 10 December affected an area of about 42ha…
Northumbrian Water has announced seven partners to form its Living Water Enterprise (LWE) to deliver £3.6bn of work during the eighth asset management period (AMP8) between 2025 to 2030.
The LWE partners are Esh-Stantec, Avove, Farrans Construction, Costain, Mott MacDonald Bentley (MMB), Bam and MWH Treatment. BAM, Costain and MMB have…
Thames Water has released details of a £400M opportunity for a contractor to construct a replacement high lift pumping station (HLPS) at the Coppermills Advanced Water Treatment Works.
The package includes the design, construction and commissioning of the new HLPS as well as the decommissioning of the existing one at Coppermills.…
A former Environment Agency area manager has said that existing flood defence measures along the Rivers Severn and Wye are “creating a false sense of security” given the increasing intensity of floods due to the climate emergency.
Last week Storm Henk brought fresh focus on flood defences in the UK with…
Thames Water has come under fire for its accelerated plans to pump treated sewage into the River Thames during droughts to replace water it abstracts for drinking.
The private utility company, which is owned by a consortium including the Canadian pension fund OMERS and the UK’s Universities Superannuation Scheme, delivers drinking…
The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s (LCRCA’s) proposed Mersey Tidal barrage scheme could take between seven to 10 years to build, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.
The Mersey tidal barrage scheme, named Mersey Tidal Power, is a £3.5bn proposal to build a renewable energy generation facility that will also…
The government has announced financial support for communities in England that have suffered “exceptional localised flooding” caused by Storm Henk.
The storm hit the south and west of England from 2 January to 8 January, causing havoc on roads and railways and submerging swathes of farmland. Residentially, people were evacuated in…
Engineers will commence work to lay Essex’s new 19.5km water pipeline in February.
Essex & Suffolk Water’s £20M pipeline will run between Layer-de-la-Haye and Langford and is designed to help make water supplies to 1.5M customers in those areas more resilient. It will do this by enabling water to be efficiently…
The aftereffects of Storm Henk continued to disrupt people's lives days after the extreme weather had passed, including the closure of the QEII bridge at Dartford, a burst canal in Hackney Wick and residents evacuated in Gloucester due to flood waters.
With the ground in many places in the south and…
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