Infrastructure workers across a number of sectors in Northern Ireland have begun industrial action over a seven day period over a rejected pay increase that a union referred to as “a slap in the face”.
Road service, rivers agency, forest service and the Environment Agency workers in Northern Ireland are staging…
The Environment Agency has brought forward the deadline for adapting flood defences upstream (west) of the Thames Barrier by 15 years to 2050.
The announcement comes as part of a number of updates to its Thames Estuary 2100 (TE2100) flood risk mitigation plan, having completed the first full review since its…
It is “difficult to say” whether the government is genuinely committed to improving the UK’s long-term flood resilience, according to the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC).
Speaking at NCE’s Flood Resilience conference on yesterday, NIC assistant director Ed Beard said that the government’s lack of commitment to long-term flood resilience has been…
The Environment Agency has renewed its collaborative delivery framework (CDF), extending its agreement with the likes of Bam Nuttall, Arup and Jacobs for infrastructure delivery for the next four years.
The framework has already been running for an initial four year period, and the Environment Agency has taken an optional extension…
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has pleaded with the construction industry to make sites safer after RJ McLeod was handed an £800,000 fine for the death of a 10-year-old boy on one of its sites.
Speaking after the court decision, HSE principal inspector Graeme McMinn said: “The construction industry should…
Network Rail has begun a £3.5M programme to improve the heavy rain resilience of the railway between the North Lanarkshire villages of Croy and Dullatur.
The project, which will last nine months, will see Network Rail and rail contractor QTS carry out work between the two villages to help prevent the…
Ofwat has said it is “encouraged” by a number of water companies’ long-term delivery strategies but that “some companies have significantly more to do to meet [its] expectations”.
The water regulator is working with the UK’s water companies towards Price Review 2024 (PR24), where it will assess what the companies can…
Construction of a trial embankment to inform design work for the new Havant Thicket Reservoir in Hampshire has got underway, NCE’s sister title Ground Engineering has reported.
Portsmouth Water awarded Future Water MJJV – a joint venture of Van Oord Group company Mackley and Wales-based Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK –…
A road in Kent has been closed since Monday, after a water main running under the road burst triggering the partial collapse of the carriageway and pavement.
The A226 Galley Hill Road in the village of Swanscombe is situated on the edge of a cliff. The burst water main, which belongs…
Improved water quality in Chichester Harbour in West Sussex from reduced storm overflows are promised by Southern Water as a result of its new wetlands scheme. Southern Water says the project, involving the planting of more than 1,500 reed plants, is set to be completed “in the next few weeks”…
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