Southern Water has reached a tunnelling milestone on its £100 million-plus Southampton Link Main underground pipeline project after a tunnel was completed deep beneath the M3 motorway.

The second length of sewer under the A65 in Ilkley, part Yorkshire Water’s project to build a new sewer in the town to reduce storm overflows into the river Wharfe, has been completed.

United Utilities has taken the next major step in the tender process for the £1.75 billion Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme (HARP) contract by shortlisting three consortia to participate in the next stage.

 Tideway has completed the ninth and final shaft in the £4.2 billion Thames supersewer project.

Highways England is getting ready to tender a £242 million contract for an integration partner to oversee the £6.8 billion Lower Thames Crossing project.

Severn Trent’s state-of-the-art ‘Siege Breaker’tunnelling machine has finished its nine month journey under the streets of Newark, creating a three kilometres long tunnel .

The KMI+ Alliance team has successfully broken through on the Preston Interceptor Sewage Tunnel after recently completing a 3.5km drive under Preston city centre with tunnel boring machine (TBM) ‘Caroline’ for United Utilities.

The first of five micro-tunnels 27 metres below Preston city centre is underway at Watery Lane. United Utilities is constructing eight kilometres of tunnels at a cost of £114m, to stop wastewater flowing into the River Ribble during heavy storms.