The National Digital Twin programme, part of Centre for Digital Built Britain, wanted to create an interactive demonstrator tool to help show how connected digital twins can make energy, water and telecoms infrastructure more resilient to flooding due to climate change.
National Grid plc has announced that it has agreed to sell a 60% equity interest in its UK gas transmission and metering business to a consortium of long-term infrastructure investors comprised of Macquarie Asset Management and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI).
Anglian Water looking for early market engagement with the supply chain as part of an exercise to review their options for the implementation of a new framework for Modelling Optimisation.
Northumbrian Water says that the world is on the brink of the next evolution in mobile technology with the advent of the 5G network set to super power a smart grid and deliver unprecedented benefits for customers, communities and households.
Severn Trent is trialling satellite technologies to detect leakage from space – the water company is already using drones to spot leaks from the air.
Oliver Grievson, Flow Compliance & Regulatory Efficiency Manager, Anglian Water explores what it means for a wastewater network to be “Smart” and how it can help the water industry to make better, more informed decisions about how to operate the wastewater network.
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.