A Freedom of Information request submitted by NCE has revealed utility companies spent nearly £7M renting roads to conduct maintenance works last year.
The data was taken from a Transport for London (TfL) document detailing all the funds the body had received between April 2022 to March 2023 under the TfL…
A carbon neutral wastewater treatment plant, the world’s first ecological digital twin and 3D printed water infrastructure are among 16 winners of Ofwat’s £40M innovation competition.
Ofwat’s Water Breakthrough Challenge is a competition that aims to encourage initiatives to tackle challenges facing the water sector, such as achieving net zero, protecting…
A £42.9M phase of a project to better protect over 2,100 homes in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk from flooding has been completed for the Environment Agency by JBA Bentley.
Construction work on the second phase commenced in September 2019. The overall scheme, which is split into several phases, includes 12km of flood…
Award-winning construction projects and initiatives have two more weeks to submit an entry to this years’ British Construction Industry Awards (BCIA) as the deadline for entries has been extended to 26 May.
The awards, which is jointly organised by NCE and the ICE, brings together the entire construction industry to celebrate…
Bam, Arup and Tarmac have worked with the Environment Agency to trial the use of two low carbon concrete mixes for permanent works at the Hexham flood alleviation Scheme in Northumberland.
The trials, delivered by the Environment Agency’s Collaborative Delivery Framework Hub A - a cooperation between the agency, Arup and…
Sand totalling 400,000m3 is to be dredged from licensed areas of the seabed along the Lincolnshire coast and pumped onto beaches to replace levels lost to the sea throughout the year.
The dredging and redistribution of the sand will be rolled out by the Environment Agency over the next six to…
UK water regulator Ofwat has set out new measures to penalise water companies if they do not fully monitor their storm overflows.
The announcement comes in tandem with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (Defra’s) consultation on whether it should expand its storm overflow reduction targets to include all…
New aerial images from Tideway show the scale and progress of work above ground on London’s super sewer.
Main tunnelling works on the 25km system completed in April 2022 and the secondary lining is now complete in the west and underway in the east. However, there are still 20 active sites…
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is planning to consult on expanding its targets to tackle sewage even further to cover all coasts, estuaries and marine protected sites.
Targets were set in last August’s Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan, which was backed up by £56bn in capital investment…
Yorkshire Water has opened the procurement on two frameworks worth a combined £2.8bn that will help it deliver its proposed capital investment programme for asset management period 8 (AMP8), 2025 to 2030.
One of the frameworks will see the establishment of a Stormwater Alliance. Suppliers on this framework will help Yorkshire…
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