Changes to the environmental permitting system will reduce waiting times for permits – getting businesses building, delivering much-needed new housing and infrastructure, and unlocking economic growth, Environment Minister Emma Hardy has announced today.

The Environment Agency (EA) has launched a preliminary market engagement exercise seeking expressions of interest and pre-tender engagement from suppliers for its upcoming £6 billion Collaborative Delivery Framework (CDF) 2 tender.

Following Thames Water’s supply chain launch event on 18 September for its AMP8/9 Major Projects Framework, the water company has now formally gone out to tender with a contract for the framework.

Communities across the Andover area can find out how a new pipeline will improve the resilience of their water supplies at a series of drop-in sessions being held by Southern Water next month.

Barhale is set to expand its contribution to HS2’s London terminus after being given the go-ahead for further crucial utilities infrastructure works by HS2’s Station Construction Partner Mace Dragados.

Southern Water is giving the water sector supply chain an early heads up on its upcoming £84 million Andover Link Main procurement for the construction of 25km of below-ground pipeline connecting critical infrastructure between Winchester and Andover, alongside upgrades to existing and new booster stations.

Anglian Water's multi-million-pound water network – one of Europe’s biggest environmental projects and the most important in the company's history – has reached a major milestone of pipelaying completion across the entire southern stretch of its Strategic Pipeline.

Dale Foster, Business Development Manager with leading wastewater technology specialists HUBER Technology UK, takes a look at how new build solutions afford the water companies a better opportunity to meet demanding timescales and tough regulatory targets in AMP8 to deliver speedy improvements to CSO infrastructure - and also keep costs down in terms of both time and money.

The National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) has launched a new interactive online tool alongside the latest Infrastructure Pipeline update, kicking off a new era of infrastructure delivery.

United Utilities is getting ready to start work on a major £24.5 million investment project to create a vast new underground stormwater storage tank in Blackburn to ease flooding and reduce spills.