The first major construction contract for the London Tideway Tunnels scheme has been awarded to the MVB joint venture which brings together Morgan Est, Bachy Soletanche and Vinci Construction Grands Projets.

Essex & Suffolk Water is starting work to enlarge its Abberton Reservoir to help safeguard future water supplies in Essex.

The Environment Agency today announced how it will use £99.6m central Government funding to reduce the risk of flooding across the Thames region for the year to March 2011.

Plans for a new water pumping station in the North Yorkshire village of Embsay will go on show next week.

The Court of Appeal has reduced a fine imposed on Thames Water for spilling sodium hypochlorite into the River Wandle in September 2007 during cleaning at Beddington sewage plant  which killed 7,000 fish.

Costain has announced this morning that it has retained its position as a Capital Delivery partner by Welsh Water for the Asset Management Programme (AMP 5) period beginning 1st April.

Costain has announced that revenue has exceeded £1bn for the first time in 16 years and that the year-end order book is at a record high of £2.6bn up 30%.

RWE npower renewables has started to construct the £2.5 million Selset Hydroelectric Project. The hydroelectric station is being built at Selset Reservoir, 14 kilometres north west of Barnard Castle in a partnership between RWE npower renewables and Northumbrian Water.

Organisations representing utilities and their contractors have expressed serious concerns about plans by the Department of Transport to introduce harsher penalties for utilities who overrun their time limits on disruptive road works.

Carillion plc has today published a confident pre-close update on trading in the 12 months to 31 December 2009, ahead of announcing its preliminary results on 3 March 2010.