Yorkshire Water has been fined £1.6M for polluting a Bradford watercourse following a prosecution brought forward by the Environment Agency.
It has also been ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £170 and £22,112.79 in legal fees. The water company pleaded guilty to unauthorised sewage discharges in Bradford Beck and breaches…
Cowi has won the detailed design package contract for utility works around HS2 Euston station.
The contract has been awarded by Euston station main construction partner Mace Dragados JV. This design package will facilitate HS2’s works to improve connectivity and capacity for passengers accessing the existing London Underground network in the…
The Environment Agency has scalded England’s water and sewerage companies for their “terrible” environmental performance and has threatened to prosecute chief executives and board members.
The public body’s Water and sewerage companies in England: environmental performance report 2021 describes the performance of the nine water companies as “the worst we have…
Interserve chair Alan Lovell is to replace Emma Howard Boyd as chair of the Environment Agency, after MPs signed off on his appointment.
The Environment Agency named Lovell as its preferred candidate for the role in June, with two parliamentary committees now agreeing to the appointment. However, while they were content…
Galliford Try has purchased Coventry-based company MCS Control Systems for £1.
MCS was founded in 1976 and specialises in systems integration for the industrial and utilities sector, mainly in water, having worked with the likes of Scottish Water, Southern Water and Welsh Water. Its accounts for 2020, the latest available, show…
The Canal & River Trust has launched the procurement process for two frameworks worth a combined £48bn.
Both frameworks will be awarded for an initial four year period, with the option to extend by an additional four years. The first framework is a Professional Service Contract (PSC) and scope of work…
The head of the Environment Agency has warned that up to £650bn of infrastructure projects could be at risk unless the impact of climate change is taken more seriously.
Environment Agency chair Emma Howard Boyd said that public sector spending on infrastructure must be resilient or it could “risk chaos” in…
In light of the pollution crisis in UK waterways, highway engineers need to renew focus on surface water treatment across their projects.
A number of pollutants can often be present on the UK’s roads, where motor oil, tyre debris and heavy metals from brake dust can find its way into…
Barhale has been appointed by Silvertown Tunnel main contractors to divert utilities from the path of the planned River Thames crossing.
The Riverlinx JV, comprising Ferrovial, BAM Nuttall and SK E&C, is gearing up for the start of tunnelling later this year, with the first elements of the tunnel boring machine…
The Thames Tideway Tunnel team at the Albert Embankment site in Vauxhall has completed the concrete pour to form the roof of the 49m-deep shaft.
This is the second shaft closure on the central section of the super sewer, following on from the Victoria Embankment closure at the end of 2021.…
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