£30m UK construction shortfall at Balfour Beatty – CEO steps down
Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has issued a £30 million profits warning and announced the departure of Chief Executive Andrew Naughton with inmmediate effect with the publication of its latest trading update for the period 1 January to 5 May 2014.
Ofwat publishes water company charges schemes for 2014-15
Water industry regulator has published information about the annual charges schemes the water companies will apply for the period 1st April 2014 to 31st March 2015.
Morgan Sindall appoints new MD of Civil Engineering
Morgan Sindall has appointed former Laing O'Rourke infrastructure operations director, Nick Fletcher as its new managing director of civil engineering.
Balfour Beatty Engineering Services appoints CEO
Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES) has created a new Chief Operating Officer role to strengthen its national leadership team.
United Utilities consults on £114m wastewater project
United Utilities is consulting local communities on its plans for a three-year wastewater treatment overhaul at their facilities in Chadderton and Royton.
Ofwat continues Anglian Water anti-competitive pricing investigation
Ofwat has issued a Supplementary Statement of Objections as part of its continuing investigation into whether Anglian Water behaved in an anti-competitive way in its pricing conduct at the ‘Fairfield’ development in Milton Keynes.
Go-ahead for AD Plant at Yorkshire Water’s Knostrop Sewage Treatment Works
Kelda Water Services Limited, owners of Yorkshire Water, has been granted full planning permission to build an Anaerobic Digestion Plant at the Knostrop Sewage Treatment Works in Leeds.
Severn Trent Water invests £550K+ in sewer upgrade
Severn Trent Water is investing more than half a million pounds to upgrade the way sewage is treated in Cutnall Green in Worcestershire.
Northumbrian Water fined £30,000 over pollution incidents
Northumbrian Water Ltd has been fined a total of £30,000 for two sewage pollution incidents that happened last year, one of which was partly due to monitoring equipment failure.
Severn Trent Water fined over sewage pollution of brook
Severn Trent Water Limited pleaded guilty at Telford Magistrates’ Court yesterday to polluting the Pudding Brook in Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire with untreated sewage.
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Safe access solutions a key requirement for water sector and other Critical Infrastructure Providers
Craig Nienaber, Business Development Manager for Safe Access Solutions (SAS) at HUBER Technology, explores why the company is seeing a growing level of interest in its safe access solutions for critical infrastructure providers, including their application in wastewater treatment assets. -
Albion Water appoints new Director of Business Development
Albion Water, the first NAV (New Appointment & Variation) to have been established in1999 and now under the ownership of SDS Water Group, has appointed Andy Holland as its new Director of Business Development. -
Webinar to explore moving indirect potable water reuse to full implementation
UK water companies are invited to join an upcoming webinar which will explore how the sector can take indirect potable reuse (IPR) from concept to full-scale operational reality. -
Kohtari CEO says joined-up water intelligence needed to predict, not just react - not more data
James Sumsion, CEO of predictive water intelligence specialists Kohtari, says the water sector needs to take a giant leap forward, so that it can anticipate and act upon water quality issues - rather than merely react.
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