Infrastructure solutions company Costain and WSP have been granted funding by Northumbrian Water to develop a new AI-powered platform designed to improve the efficiency and accuracy of data, thereby reducing delivery times for the company’s capital projects during asset management period 8 (AMP8).

The Drinking Water Quality Regulator for Scotland has flagged up the “deteriorating condition and age” of many of Scottish Water’s assets and concerns that the current scale and pace of investment in the maintenance and replacement of water assets is "simply not sufficient."

Scottish Water invested a record £886 million in the last year – but the water company is warning it will need higher investment levels in future to maintain vital services in the face of a changing climate and ageing water and waste water assets.

Southern Water has launched the procurement process for a range of supply chain partners for the delivery of its AMP8 capital programme. The utility has gone out to tender with a major AMP8/9 framework contract for capital strategic delivery partners worth up to an estimated £6.2 billion.

The Institution of Civil Engineers has written to the Competition and Markets Authority expressing its concern over Ofwat’s backward looking econometric historical model and calling for it to be replaced with a more forward looking model at future Price Reviews.

Northumbrian Water has scooped a global award for an innovative use of artificial intelligence that has seen it improve the way it collects and stores digital information about its assets.

Leading engineering and asset management consultancy, Amey has launched Mercury, their new cloud-based data analytics system at this year’s Institute of Asset Management Annual Conference in Edinburgh.

In an Expert Focus article for Waterbriefing, Brendan McAndrew, Principal Consultant and technical lead at MWH (now part of Stantec), discusses how water companies can ensure their services are resilient enough to meet customer and regulatory expectations.