Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, is to set up a national UK training academy following the award of £4.4 million of funding through the Government’s Employer Ownership of Skills pilot scheme.

Investment in green power must be trebled in order for the world to avoid dangerous climate change, according to a new report by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC).

Lord Chris Smith, Chairman of the Environment Agency, told delegates at CIWEM’s Annual Conference this week that extreme weather is “the number one challenge facing the nation.”

Ferrovial Agroman, Ferrovial’s construction subsidiary, has been chosen by electric utility Endesa to undertake the civil engineering work for the Los Cóndores hydroelectric plant in Chile in a contract worth $250 million – around £170 million.

The London Assembly Environment Committee has published a summary of the flood risks facing the capital.

A 10-month partnership project that has improved the quality of bathing water at Southend ahead of the summer season has been hailed a success by the Environment Agency.

New analysis from Deloitte, shows that no UK technology companies have listed in the US since the start of 2011, apart from King.

Mike Norbury, Research Hydrologist for Water-Value, based in the firm’s Northumberland office at Alnwick, comments on the government’s new insurance scheme and its impact on flood risk and/or previously flooded property.

A focus on export business in the Indonesian and Malaysian markets has resulted in a 100% increase in sales within the Partech catalogue, marking a huge success for the UK-based company in their 50th year.