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…
Environment Agency data and regional Shoreline Management Plans have revealed £548M worth of property is at risk of succumbing to coastal erosion by 2100.
The news follows on from the impact of coastal erosion making front page news in March when residents of Hemsby in Norfolk lost properties to rapid erosion.…
Anglian Water has chosen Jacobs to deliver its Asset Management Specialist Consultancy Framework with provision across the water company’s digital and physical asset portfolio.
The firm will provide a range of technical consulting services to Anglian Water to support delivery of services in one of the driest regions in the UK.…
During her 70-year reign as Queen of the UK and the Commonwealth realms, Elizabeth II had no shortage of railways, bridges and roads named in her honour – both domestically and overseas – leaving her son and successor with much to live up to as he is crowned as King…
Northern Ireland’s Department for Infrastructure (DfI) will suffer from a 15% drop in its day-to-day spending budget against last year.
A spokesperson for the department said that the capital allocation of £792M for the current financial year is £146M less than is required and to manage the shortfall, investment in maintaining…
Canal and River Trust’s contractor Kier has completed a key section of sheet piling work on the project to restore the Toddbrook Reservoir in Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire, after the partial collapse of the dam’s spillway in 2019
Kier has installed 422 pile sections to create the new side channel weir…
Entries are now open for the 2023 TechFest Awards, with new categories added to celebrate innovation in even more areas of civil engineering and construction.
The broader outlook for the awards, which will be held in the evening after TechFest's daytime conference on 23 November at Hilton London Bankside, are the…
With Defra’s decision the implement Schedule 3, sustainable drainage systems (SuDs) and the water held within, will become a crucial part of designing new developments for towns and cities.
As a result, we need to start thinking about the impact SuDs can have and change the conversation about urban flood…
A "catalogue of failures" by Anglian Water led to sewage flowing into the North Sea and the firm has been fined £2.7M for its failings.
The utility was ordered to pay the penalty, along with prosecution costs of £16,520 and a £170 victim surcharge, after pleading guilty to breaching permit conditions…
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