A £4.5m scheme that involved engineers battling with the second strongest tidal range in the world has been completed reducing the risk of flooding in Bristol city centre.

Interserve, the services, maintenance and building group, has secured a place on Severn Trent’s £40 million property framework, alongside two other contractors.

Northern Ireland Water (NI Water) is investing £1.8m in north Armagh by providing a new Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) with increased treatment capability.

Joint venture partners Morgan Est and VINCI Construction Grands Projets - two of the industry’s leading civil engineering contractors - are celebrating after hearing they are to be presented with a Green Apple Environment Award.

The future of the Earth could rest on potentially dangerous and unproven geoengineering technologies unless emissions of carbon dioxide can be greatly reduced, the latest Royal Society report has found.

With some economists heralding the start of the upturn for the local economy, Northern Ireland Water (NI Water) has announced the opening of its new £2m Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) in Park, Derry.

Balfour Beatty has reported a 14 per cent rise in pre-tax profit for the first half of the year - an adjusted pre-tax profit of £108 million for the six months to 27 June 2009 compared with £95 million last year.

In a pre-close trading update for the year ended 31 July 2009, Mouchel Group plc, said it anticipated reporting results in line with the Board's expectations.