A lagoon built by Network Rail to help alleviate flood risk to a railway in Gloucestershire failed during Storm Henk, with the line between Bristol Parkway and Swindon closing for eight days.
It was installed in 2018 by Network Rail in a £5M flood alleviation scheme. Beginning on 1 January, the…
Construction of a new motorway in Serbia is bringing more than just transport connectivity to the region. It is also bringing communications improvements and flood resilience.
Opening of the first section of the Morava Motorway in Serbia this spring has given the local community a glimpse of the benefits that will…
Devon County Council (DCC) has appointed technology company Previsico to trial connected water and silt level sensors along a subset of Devon’s highway gullies.
Known as the Devon Resilience Innovation Project (Drip) Smart Gullies Trial, the project’s purpose is to mitigate floods on major roads. During heavy rainfall, low lying routes…
The UK Government has allocated £1.4M to fund eight projects focused on infrastructure climate change resilience.
The £1.4M will support eight projects supported by computational modelling that promise to reinforce infrastructure resilience against severe weather events. The projects all have a key focus on underground infrastructure including water pipes and electrical…
Low carbon concrete mixes being trialled on a flood alleviation scheme in Northumberland could be a key environmental solution for future projects.
Heavy rainfall during Storm Desmond in December 2015 made the River Tyne overtop its banks north of Hexham town centre in Northumberland. The Bridge End and Tyne Mills…
Cumbria in the north of England has a history of flooding. In 2015, 2,276 properties and businesses flooded in the town of Kendal and surrounding villages during Storm Desmond. To create future resilience, the Environment Agency and Westmorland & Furness Council are working with WSP and others to deliver one…
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…
Work on Centre Port UK, billed as the world’s first tidal powered deep-sea container terminal, could commence in 2025, with completion planned by 2030.
Centre Port is a 18km, £2bn tidal barrage across The Wash, a bay in East Anglia, designed to link Lincolnshire to Norfolk. The project will feature the…
The inaugural Innovation Accelerator competition at the NCE Flood Resilience conference has been won by intelligent surface water management system Polysync Smart Blue Roof.
The system was developed by the Environmental Protection Group (EPG) and is designed to “measure, understand, predict and act on” surface water, rain fall and weather activity…
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…
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