Blackpool and Wyre Borough Councils have jointly gone out to tender for two major coastal flood defence schemes worth up to £100 million.
The UK construction sector is questioning the ability of the Government’s plans to use a £5 billion boost to infrastructure spending and a £20 billion investment from pension funds to stimulate the economy.
The Environment Agency has put a water and environment management framework contract worth up to £1 billion out to tender.
Northern Ireland Water has put a massive programme of work potentially worth up to £485 million out to tender.
BAM Construction has been appointed as preferred bidder to build a £15 million National Operations Centre for Scottish Water.
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water has awarded framework contracts for its Waste Water Network Operations Support Framework to seven companies.
CLYDEUNION Pumps has been awarded a contract by Kindasa Water Services to supply pumps for an additional train for the existing Kindasa SWRO desalination plant in Saudi Arabia.
Costain has secured its first project within a competitive tender framework with Northumbrian Water to construct a duplicate rail crossing, in Northumberland.
An ESI-led consortium has won the contract to deliver a major programme of investigation for Severn Trent Water under the Restoring Sustainable Abstraction (RSA) Programme.
Galliford Try, the housebuilding and construction group, announced this morning that it has, in partnership with Imtech Process, been awarded a £35m contract to construct two advanced anaerobic digestion plants for Anglian Water at sewage works in Basildon and Ipswich.
Sulzer has launched a new global Center of Excellence (CoE) for Water Treatment Solutions - the CoE consolidates Sulzer’s wastewater treatment expertise in a unified and global manner.
“SAS (Surplus Activated Sludge) is a bit weird and can do odd things,” says Stuart Chatten, Lead Bioresources Technician at Whitlingham Water Recycling Centre (WRC), one of Anglian Water’s principal centres for processing sewage, serving a population of 400,000.
Owen Mace has taken over as Director of the British Plastics Federation (BPF) Plastic Pipes Group on the retirement of Caroline Ayres. He was previously Standards and Technical Manager for the group.
PureTec Separations, the Ledbury-based water treatment engineering firm, has appointed Dan Norman as its new Sales Manager – Water Process Systems, supporting the company’s continued growth in the UK and international markets.