Kier has agreed a new £25m per annum contract with the Canal & River Trust to carry out important engineering and construction works on the nation’s 200-year-old canal network.
Morrison Utility Services, the leading utility services provider in the UK, has been selected by Anglian Water to support the delivery of its Integrated Operational Solutions (IOS) water and wastewater programme for the AMP6 period 2015-2020.
Mott MacDonald has been appointed by the Shanghai Water Authority to provide technical support for the third phase of the Shanghai Urban Environment Project in China.
Anglian Water has announced the next set of framework partners who will deliver contracts worth around £450 million between 2015 and 2020, during AMP6.
Thames Water has gone out to tender with a valves contract for AMP6 worth up to £29 million.
The Environment Agency has appointed Team Van Oord, the Joint Venture partnership between Van Oord, Kier, Mackley Construction and Royal HaskoningDHV, to construct a £30 million scheme to reduce flood risk in Kent.
Halcrow Group has won a £200,000 to provide Falkirk Council with consultancy services covering flooding and drainage related professional services.
The Council has appointed Halcrow as a Term Consultant for the review of development submissions received by the Planning authority with respect to flooding and drainage.
Halcrow, which was acquired by CH2M HILL in November 2011, will provide expert technical under the framework agreement. The contract will run for an initial period of 2 years, with a maximum extension of 2 years.
A total of six firms were in the bidding for the work, which has an estimated value of around £210,000.
United Utilities has gone out to tender with a major £120 million AMP6 contract to upgrade its Blackburn waste water treatment works and will hold a bidders day later next month.
MacroAsia Corporation has awarded Biwater a project to design and construct a 10 million litres per day water treatment plant for the district of Solano in the Nueva Vizcaya province in the Philippines.
The Scottish Government has gone out to tender with a massive contract worth a potential £350 million for the supply of mains water and waste water services to over 100+ public sector organisations across Scotland.
South West Water has hosted the first municipal trial of the Fournier Rotary Press in the UK, assessing its potential to improve sludge dewatering performance and support future biosolids standards.
Uniwater has acquired Hy-Ram Engineering, a specialist in tooling, products and hire for the water sector, based in Mansfield, England.
Enpure Ltd and Clean TeQ Water Ltd have announced a collaboration agreement to bring Clean TeQ Water's Moving Bed Ion Exchange-based nutrient removal technologies to water utilities across the UK.
Near-real-time microbial monitoring of wastewater discharge and bathing waters is now possible thanks to the BactoSense ID solution created by Swiss-based bNovate Technologies.