Shropshire-based Wrekin Construction, which employs up to 600 workers across the UK, has gone into administration. Both Wrekin Group PLC and Wrekin Construction Company Limited have ceased to trade and are now in the hands of administrators Ernst and Young. The company, which had a turnover of just over £60 million in 2007, blamed a lack of support from its bank the Royal Bank of Scotland. The company’s work included a number of contracts on canals, rivers, sewers and drainage. For companies interested in acquiring any existing contracts, the Joint Administrators have appointed Naismiths to advise in relation to ongoing contracts. GVA Grimley have been appointed to deal with the sale of the companies’ plant and machinery assets.
ABB has launched AquaMaster+™, a digital platform for smart water network management, designed to help water utilities monitor, analyze and manage their water networks, preventing pipeline water losses and optimizing operations.
Craig Nienaber, Business Development Manager for Safe Access Solutions (SAS) at HUBER Technology, explores why the company is seeing a growing level of interest in its safe access solutions for critical infrastructure providers, including their application in wastewater treatment assets.
Albion Water, the first NAV (New Appointment & Variation) to have been established in1999 and now under the ownership of SDS Water Group, has appointed Andy Holland as its new Director of Business Development.
UK water companies are invited to join an upcoming webinar which will explore how the sector can take indirect potable reuse (IPR) from concept to full-scale operational reality.
Southern Water has released film and images showing what it’s like to walk inside Hampshire’s expanded Yew Hill underground reservoir for the very last time, before it gets filled with water.
Hear how Scottish Water has completed its £235 million Ayrshire Glasgow Resilience Project - customers across Greater Glasgow, Ayrshire and East Renfrewshire will now benefit from a more secure and resilient water supply.
Hear how United Utilities is accelerating its investment to reduce spills from storm overflows across the Northwest.