The World Water Council says that over €255 billion euros must be invested in water infrastructure globally every year until 2030 due to climate change.
A 200 tonne tidal gate engineered and constructed in Holland has arrived in Suffolk, ready to be installed at Ipswich’s new flood barrier.
Yorkshire Water has gone out tender with a major civils framework contract covering all civil engineering based activity worth an estimated £300 million in total.
Stephen Bourne, Atlanta-based project director at Atkins, talks about a new tool which can help cities strengthen their resilience in the face of population growth and the growing impacts of climate change.
Both business and the public are concerned about the pace of delivery and a record number of firms are dissatisfied with the state of infrastructure in their region, according to the 2017 CBI/AECOM Infrastructure Survey.
The UK government has launched a review and public consultation of the implications of foreign ownership or control of crtical infrastructure and how it can best ensure that investments and takeovers do not raise national security concerns.
UK construction product manufacturers are expecting slower growth in sales and activity as cost rises and slowing construction output continue to weaken market conditions, according to the Construction Products Association (CPA) latest State of Trade Survey for 2017 Q3.
Northumbrian Water has gone out to tender with a contract to upgrade the capacity at its Barsham Water Treatment Works at Beccles in Suffolk worth an estimated £10 million.
Thames Water has been recognised for its commitment to sustainability by the influential Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark for Infrastructure (GRESB) survey.
The water companies have moved swiftly to reject Jermy Corbyn’s attack on the water sector in England in his keynote speech to delegates at the Labour Party Conference today which called for the utilities to be taken back into public ownership.