The Environment Agency has gone out to tender for a contract worth up to £485 million to manage flood prevention works in the Thames Estuary covering the Tidal Thames from Teddington in West London, through to Sheerness and Shoeburyness in Kent and Essex.

Galliford Try plc has announced record profits with the publication this morning of its annual results for the year ended 30 June 2013.

The world's most innovative companies expect to grow by more than 60% over the next five years, adding a total of more than US$250 billion in new revenues as a result of sophisticated approaches to innovation in all areas of their operations.

The CBI, the UK's leading business organisation, is warning that businesses are concerned that two years of positive Government infrastructure policy announcements will not translate into delivery on the ground and could undermine the return to sustainable growth.

Severn Trent Costain have signed a multi-million pound contract with major UK dairy First Milk, to design, build and operate a new wastewater treatment plant at the company’s Haverfordwest Creamery.

The Planning Inspectorate, the government agency responsible for examining planning applications for nationally significant infrastructure projects, will today hold a preliminary hearing at the start of a planning inquiry into Thames Water’s proposed £4.2bn Tideway Tunnel.