Balfour Beatty has issued a trading update covering the period to 5 December 2024 - the international infrastructure group is expecting its order book to grow by over 5% in 2024 (FY2023: £16.5 billion).

NI Water has announced the completion of a £220K programme of repair work on a section of a major water main, which delivers water from Ballinrees Water Treatment Works to approximately 19,000 homes in Portrush, Portstewart and the wider Coleraine area.

Scottish Water is on track to hit a major milestone of 500,000 trees planted through its woodland creation programme by the end of this planting season. More than 245 hectares of the water company’s land will be planted with native woodland before March 2025.

Northumbrian Water is progressing its £155 million water pipeline project - engineers constructing the new pipeline have started work on crossing one of the region’s busiest roads.

Diehl Metering GmbH, a global leader in smart metering solutions, has announced the acquisition of PREVENTIO GmbH, a German-based technology startup specializing in leakage management and predictive maintenance.

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water has further extended the precautionary ‘boil water’ notice issued to parts of Rhondda Cynon Taf following flooding at the company’s Tynywaun Water Treatment Works near Treherbert.

Yorkshire Water has started work to reduce discharges from a storm overflow on Bradford Road in Keighley, Bradford, as it continues its work to improve the health of rivers in the region.