Tag Archives: water

For some time the water sector’s to-do list has been extensive and challenging.

For some time the water sector’s to-do list has been extensive and challenging. This includes reducing overflows from sewers, improving river quality, reducing leaks and increasing the rate of asset replacement for water and wastewater networks. All this…

Main Point: Grenfell's internal fire spread Once again, discussion of the reasons behind the Grenfell disaster focus only on the inflammable cladding panels (NCE, July). However, in a report by Dave Parker in the August 2017 edition of NCE, it was spelt out very clearly that the fire which engulfed…

Involvement of key stakeholders in early design stages is crucial for improved rail project delivery, says Martin Brown.

In May, Network Rail published its Delivering an Efficient Railway document. It includes a target to deliver £3.8bn in savings by the end of the infrastructure operator’s Control Period 7 (CP7) investment…

Main Point The debate about valuing water raises many issues from a civil engineering perspective (NCE, last month). It speaks eloquently about the need to get together and value water holistically but then focuses only on public water supply with no mention about the increasing water needs of agriculture particularly…

Stormtech SuDS attenuation system targets the UK market

StormTech arch-shaped SuDS attenuation chambers from Advanced Drainage Systems have been used on over 50,000 projects worldwide. New Eurocode modelling demonstrates they pass muster for projects in the UK and Europe too. The StormTech underground SuDS attenuation system, that exploits the structural properties…

The UK needs to start pushing forward with plans for more reservoirs if it is to remain resilient against the climate crisis, according to leading water experts.

A new potable water reservoir hasn’t opened in the UK since 1992, when Severn Trent Water’s Carsington Reservoir in Derbyshire was completed. Portsmouth Water…

As South East Water announced its customers would soon be subject to hosepipe bans, households supplied by United Utilities gained a new water source as the firm’s 100km connection to Thirlmere reservoir was put into use for the first time.

Yesterday the first 1,400 households received water via the new £300M…

NCE’s 25th anniversary supplement made predictions for what the world of civil engineering would look like in 2022 – how did those forecasts hold up?

In NCE’s 8 May 1997 issue, the news team reported that the base slab pour at Westminster station on the Jubilee Line Extension had been completed,…

Mike Winney died in 2007. This is written by his close former colleague Ty Byrd.

Mike was a highly experienced reporter with many fine stories to his name but the pinnacle of his achievement did not involve words, it was a drawing. A drawing that illustrated much better than any…

On 23 May 1984, an explosion tore apart the Abbeystead valve house at the recently-completed Lune-Wyre water transfer scheme in Lancashire, killing 16 of a party of visitors and leaving many more seriously injured. It is the only incident I can recall of a civil (or structural) engineering failure in…