Costain is planning to measure its baseline water consumption in 2012 to enable reduction targets to be developed in 2013. The UK engineering and construction firm is also aiming to reduce its measured carbon emissions by 20% from a 2008 baseline and to divert 90% of waste generated from landfill by 2014.

Engineering company Trant Construction has played a key role in the £9.3m enhancement of a critical sewage pumping station in Bristol on behalf of Wessex Water.

The River Tyne will benefit from a significant Scottish Water investment at the Haddington waste water treatment works.

Work is now underway on a £1million upgrade to the Wastewater Treatment Works at Tamnaherin, Nothern Ireland Water has announced.

The Construction Products Association’s latest State of Trade Survey says that the prospect of an economic slowdown in the major European economies, together with increasing global energy and raw material prices, remain as the major threats to further recovery in the UK construction products industry.

Ovivo, the only global business dedicated exclusively to water, has almost doubled the size of its operation at its West Bromwich UK head office, in an expansion that will enable the company to further develop its growing Aftermarket work.