Morrison Construction will begin work next week on the £45m River Findhorn and Pilmuir scheme at Forres, the last of Moray’s five major flood alleviation schemes.
United Utilities and Anglian Water have gone out to tender on contracts worth £90m and £22m respectively.
The Environment Agency has put out to tender on its northern minor works framework with individual contracts worth up to £250,000.
The Office of Public Works in Ireland has awarded Lagan Construction a €14.5m Flood Alleviation Scheme in Fermoy, County Cork, with the 18 month contract due to commence in May 2012.
Galliford Try Infrastructure is understood to be the main contractor for Anglian Water’s new £44million reservoir near Newton-on-Trent.
Industrial services provider ERIKS has won a new three year contract with South West Water to maintain the utility’s waste water pumps from their networks throughout Devon and Cornwall and some areas of Somerset and Dorset.
Drainage specialist Lanes Group has been awarded a £216 million contract by Thames Water to provide waste water network services for at least three years.
Construction giant Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £13m contract to extend the Forth and Clyde canal under the M9 motorway.
Technical support services firm AECOM has been awarded two design-build contracts together worth £49million to upgrade the Blackburn Meadows Wastewater Treatment Plant in Sheffield.
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water (DCWW) has chosen Black & Veatch as one of three framework partners to help optimise efficiency across its distribution network.
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.