The GCA JV, a United Utilities AMP5 Process Alliance Partner, recently achieved a significant milestone on the £200 million Liverpool Programme by successfully completing almost 400 metres of very large diameter, fabricated steel and ductile iron pipework, all with the help of Building Information Modelling (BIM).

A Costain team working on the Severn Trent Water (STW) AMP5 framework has devised a way to shutdown an entire sewage treatment works without using storm facilities.

Arup has won the 12th Tien-yow Jeme Civil Engineering Prize organised by the China Civil Engineering Society for its work on the Hong Kong West Drainage Tunnel.

In a strategic move which further strengthens its position in the UK water sector, Ham Baker Group has acquired leading scraper manufacturer A& J Water for an undisclosed fee.

Thousands of homes and properties in the UK could be protected from river flooding by a ‘supersized’ engineering solution, which uses proven principles of vortex flow control technology to deliver carefully-engineered flood protection, while creating biodiverse landscaping and wetlands.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, the Welsh Government and the Environment Agency have launched three separate consultations on the Government’s proposals to integrate flood defence consents into the Environmental Permitting regime.

The Environment Agency, working as part of the Crane Valley Partnership to restore the river’s vitality following major sewage spills in 2011 and 2013, released 2000 chub, 2000 dace, 2000 roach and 1500 barbel into the river last week.

Thames Water has been ordered to pay more than £361,000 in fines and costs after a worker was killed by a reversing excavator at a treatment works in Walthamstow.