The Bridgwater Tidal Barrier Scheme has received national recognition at the Flood & Coast Excellence Awards 2026, with design partner AtkinsRéalis winning the Digital Excellence category for its innovative work during the scheme’s detailed design phase.

Leading port, harbour and maritime consultant Binnies has been awarded a place on the largest port and harbour engineering consultancy framework (across 21 locations) in England, Wales and Scotland for Associated British Ports (ABP).

Leading infrastructure consultancy firm AECOM has today announced it has developed a new carbon and cost tool with the Environment Agency that will be rolled out across all Environment Agency construction projects to help the organisation meet its 2030 net zero ambitions.

Matt Walker, Senior Engineer, at global design and engineering consultancy Atkins, explores how design innovation in the use of building information modelling - BIM - for the Ipswich Flood Barrier delivered significant benefits, including costs and time savings, with the potential for development into an asset information model in the future.

Leading global design and consultancy firm Arcadis for is warning that the UK must double its construction output to build at a rate of over £95,000 every single minute for the next decade to even come close to meeting national infrastructure ambitions.

Jamie Mills, Systems Engineer at Xylem and member of the BIM4Water Steering Group explores the relevance of BIM for the water industry and the lessons that can be learned from other sectors.

The Totex and AMP6 survey published recently by WaterBriefing raised some fascinating and fundamental questions about the development of whole life costing in water asset management, operation and maintenance.