Canal & River Trust chief infrastructure and programmes officer Malcolm Horne and principal engineer Fred Hartley discuss how the trust manages over 3,000 bridge structures across its canals, rivers, docks and reservoirs. Most of these bridge structures are over 100 years old and require careful and frequent maintenance. Learn how the trust…
The future of the England and Wales’ canals systems is under threat following a £300M funding cut, the Canal & River Trust has said.
The Canal & River Trust is a charity that looks after England and Wales’ 200 year old waterways, which is part funded by the Department for Environment,…
Kier, working on behalf of the Canal & River Trust, has reached a major milestone on the £15M Toddbrook Reservoir upgrade as it has completed piling for the new overflow spillway channel.
Toddbrook Reservoir became the site of a national news story in August 2019 when the main dam almost collapsed…
Affinity Water and Severn Trent Water have appointed consultancies Mott MacDonald and Adams Hendry Consulting to lead the delivery of the development consent order (DCO) application for a water transfer scheme designed to improve England’s water resilience.
The scheme will involve upgrades to the Grand Union Canal – which stretches 220km…
Three years on from a potentially catastrophic failure, work is underway to rehabilitate Toddbrook Reservoir and make it the gold standard for dam resilience.
Toddbrook Reservoir in the Peak District became headline news in August 2019 when the main dam almost collapsed following the failure of its auxiliary spillway. The ongoing…
Now is the time for the Canal & River Trust to push forward in its quest to safely maintain and preserve its many critical and historic assets. This is the view of Malcolm Horne who became chief infrastructure and programmes officer with the organisation in March this year.
The trust is…
The Canal & River Trust has awarded contracts for civil engineering works to seven contractors with a total value of £300M.
The charity is the owner of 1,582 locks, 55 tunnels, 2,970 bridges, 281 aqueducts and 71 reservoirs. The new contracts are part of its investment to maintain these historical and critical…
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…
A suspected arson attack has damaged a £20M fish pass within the River Severn as well as a footbridge passing across the waterway.
The fish pass in Worcestershire is part of the Unlocking the Severn project, enabling fish to travel up weirs along the river. A spokesperson for the project said…
The Canal & River Trust has begun work to repair the 200-year-old Leeds & Liverpool Canal, which suffered an embankment failure near Blackburn.
The collapse occurred on the night of 10 October at a point of weakness where the Hyndburn Brook joins the canal via a culvert. Following the failure, a…
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