United Utilities has awarded an £85M contract for the construction of a water pipeline in Cumbria to a joint venture between Farrans Construction and Roadbridge.
The job entails the design, construction and commissioning of around 32km of large diameter twin water mains and around 24 km of large diameter water mains…
Serious design and construction flaws led to water flows under Oroville Dam’s main spillway which caused it to crack, according to engineers’ reports.
Two reports were released by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) this week following accusations of state secrecy surrounding the Oroville Dam repairs. Both have been written by…
Yorkshire Water is looking for suppliers to deliver packages worth £1.5bn over the AMP7 five-year period.
The first contract worth £90M for a strategic planning partner was advertised last week. The contracts will all start in 2020 and last for five years. Other contracts up for grabs include infrastructure frameworks, enhanced direct…
The first ever use of the innovative ‘moveable weirs’ in the UK has hit a major milestone as all three weir gates have been installed as part of the Leeds flood alleviation scheme.
The weirs have been installed at Knostrop Weir on the River Aire as part of the first phase…
The first of three aqueduct bypass tunnels has been completed on time in Birmingham by the BNM Alliance, a JV between North Midland Construction and Barhale.
Birmingham’s 100-year-old aqueduct, the Elan Valley Aqueduct (EVA), increasingly requires maintenance but as the city’s only water supply it cannot be turned off for more…
Scottish councils will now be able to source specialist engineering and technical consultancy services quicker and more easily as a new major framework agreement goes live.
The contract is the brainchild of Scotland Excel, a not for profit shared service which is funded by the country’s 32 local authorities and works…
Thames Water has been fined an unprecedented £20M for a series of significant pollution incidents on the River Thames.
Wastewater sites in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire repeatedly discharged untreated or poorly treated raw sewage into rivers, the Environment Agency told Aylesbury Crown Court. The Agency said that it was the biggest freshwater pollution…
Contractors have finished a major tunnelling operation to divert a water main under London’s South Circular Road and around a river and two railway lines.
Thames Water described the project as like ”threading the eye of a needle”. The diversion was carried out to enable the building of 588 apartments by…
Research body HR Wallingford has teamed up with Brunel University London and the Environment Agency to produce a series of flood and coastal engineering courses.
There will be 20 places on this new two-year foundation degree (FdSc), funded by the Environment Agency. Brunel said students spend six months on an industry…
A new low-head river hydroelectric power plant has opened in Yorkshire today.
The new 500kW Kirkthorpe hydro scheme on the River Calder is built next to a Victorian weir which drops around 3m in height. Water flowing into the plant above the weir drops by around 7m and is then channelled through…
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