Scottish Water has completed a £2.5 million project to help drain the rain and protect the centre of Lanark from internal and external sewer flooding during extreme weather events.

Severn Trent is getting ready to start work on a multi-million-pound project which will bring major benefits to the local community in Etruria, Staffordshire.

The Environment Agency has announced that work is set to start in September 2023 on a major £3 million repair and maintenance project for Plymouth’s lock gates.

The Ofwat-led Regulators’ Alliance for Progressing Infrastructure Development (RAPID) has acknowledged that there are areas where it needs to improve its performance, following feedback from stakeholders in its annual stakeholder survey for 2021- 2022.

A team of divers have completed work to offshore pipes at the Coal Authority’s Dawdon mine water treatment scheme as part of a major marine civil engineering project.

The Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) Annual Report on Major Projects 2022-23 is highlighting significant issues requiring management attention for several major flood schemes - and rates the HS2 rail line as “unachievable.”

Thames Water has extended Barhale’s existing AMP7 framework appointment by five years to the conclusion of AMP8 in March 2030.

United Utilities has gone out to tender with an AMP8/9 framework contract for construction delivery partners worth up to an estimated £5.5 billion.

Wessex Water Chairman Sir Francis Yeoh has said current projections suggest that investment will need to increase at least threefold from current levels and “we stand ready to invest further in Wessex Water for a fair return, to help finance the much enlarged future investment programme.”

Consultants, contractors and investors have flagged up the risks and gaps regulators need to address to facilitate successful delivery of the 18 major schemes currently under development in the £14 billion RAPID programme.