United Utilities has appointed Turner & Townsend Infrastructure Ltd as the Consultant who will act as the Independent Technical Adviser to its Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme – yesterday the utility announced the appointment of the Cascacade Infrastructure Ltd. consortium as the Competitively Appointed Provider (CAP) to the £3 billion programme.

Global engineering and built environment consultancy Arup has signed contracts with STRABAG UK to deliver design services for the Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme (HARP).

United Utilities has signed a landmark agreement to refurbish the crucial Haweswater aqueduct, that carries water from Cumbria to 2.5 million customers in Greater Manchester and Lancashire - nearly 5% of England's population.

The Department Of Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (Defra) has gone out to tender with a major contract for Future Hosting and Storage Services (FHAS) worth an estimated £294.6 million (inc VAT).

Thames Water has gone out to tender with an AMP8 contract for a Mains Rehab Framework Build Only with an estimated value of £120 million (inc VAT).

Knights Brown has been appointed under a two stage design & build contract, as principal contractor for the Poole Bridge to Hunger Hill Flood Defence Scheme.

Southern Water has awarded an AMP8 contract to upgrade two major wastewater sites to boost wastewater treatment at two major works in Hampshire and West Sussex worth an estimated £15.8 million.

Severn Trent Water is seeking supply chain interest in a future procurement exercise for the design and supply of two sludge drying units to be deployed at two of its sites.