The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is warning that safety risks have increased, not decreased, in the eight years since the Grenfell Tower fire, in a new review, Building Safeguards.

The National Infrastructure Commission is calling on the Government to set clear standards of resilience that infrastructure operators must maintain in the face of sudden shocks.

Thames Water has said that its current performance is falling short of expectations due to deteriorating asset health, climatic events and cost pressures.

A new report says water reform must be a priority for the next government and that it should commission a comprehensive, independent review of water management, to report within its first twelve months.

The Drinking Water Quality Regulator for Scotland (DWQR) has said that Scottish Water’s customers continue to receive a supply of very high quality drinking water which they can use with confidence - but is warning over failures in asset maintenance.

Future Water, the business support organisation for the UK water sector and the supply chain, is holding an online webinar next week to launch the Future Water Record Card.

The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has written to Ofwat expressing its concern about the present approach to managing ageing underground assets, highlighting a “lack of consistent cross-sector understanding of the rate of likely asset deterioration over time.”

A £1.2 million trunk main testing facility, a first for the UK water industry, is helping Thames Water improve the efficiency of its water network investment programme.

Asset health and resilience are high on the agenda in the 2024 Price Review process and beyond. For a supply chain take on the issues, HUBER Technology’s International Sales Manager Andreas Heim, Safe Access Solutions explores the reasons why the technology specialist is seeing a growing level of interest and uptake of its stainless steel doors in water and wastewater applications.

Asset health and resilience are high on the agenda in the 2024 Price Review process and beyond. For a supply chain take on the issues, HUBER Technology’s International Sales Manager Andreas Heim, Safe Access Solutions explores the reasons why the technology specialist is seeing a growing level of interest and uptake of its stainless steel doors in water and wastewater applications.