Engineering experts Reece Innovation will be leading a group comprising businesses, academics, schools and members of the public in a week-long search for new ideas on the way infrastructure is upgraded.

A report by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch into the partial collapse of a bridge onto open railway lines last year has highlighted the need for better information to be available to Network Rail to manage the potential risk to its structures from breaches of water utilities.

The Environment Agency is inviting interested suppliers to participate in a Market Sounding exercise for the proposed £500 million River Thames Scheme ahead of the formal procurement process scheduled to start in 2018.

This year’s keynote Landscape Institute conference will focus on landscape as infrastructure in the built environment and address how natural capital accounting will impact on the built environment professions.

Southern Water has gone out to tender with a multi-million pound contract for the Thanet Sewers rehabilitation phase 2 main works contract – the water company is seeking a contractor to complete the construction works.

Leading players in the infrastructure sector have today called for the next government to adopt ten new measures that will improve the delivery of UK infrastructure and boost economic productivity and growth.

A new pioneering asset management research report commissioned by the UK water industry says that UK water companies will need to significantly increase infrastructure investment - with significant implications for customers' bills.

The independent Committee on Climate Change(CCC) has warned MPs on the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee over the lack of information on critical infrastructure assets at risk of flooding in the UK.

Ofwat Chairman Jonson Cox has said that the upcoming PR19 Price Review “may offer very significant headroom either to improve the resilience of the service customers receive, or materially to cut their bills, or both.”

Macquarie has today announced that Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 2 (MEIF2), together with two other Macquarie-managed funds, have agreed to sell a combined 26.3 per cent interest in Kemble Water Holdings Ltd, the ultimate holding company of Thames Water Utilities Ltd.