The Rivers Trust has welcomed the prioritisation of the environment for the first time in Defra’s latest Strategic Policy Statement for Ofwat – but expressed concern that the SPS is not yet ambitious enough, and still lacks clarity.
The National Infrastructure Commission is calling on the government to deliver “real policy changes rather than the promise of further reviews” for the economically regulated utilities sectors.
Thames Water has gone out to tender with a major AMP7/8 contract for water networks developer services and infrastructure worth up to an estimated £1.04 billion in total.
Over 40 property developers and housing association members attended Welsh Water’s developer forum last week.
An £11.5 million Scottish Water project to protect a Lanarkshire community from sewer flooding has entered its final phase.
Leading infrastructure consultancy firm AECOM has today announced it has developed a new carbon and cost tool with the Environment Agency that will be rolled out across all Environment Agency construction projects to help the organisation meet its 2030 net zero ambitions.
Severn Trent is investing £76 million in Mansfield using community integrated sustainable urban drainage to alleviate the risk of flooding during storms, in a trial never seen to this scale in the UK before.
A multidisciplinary team of experts have come together to undertake complex reinforced concrete works at Tideway’s Heathwall Pumping Station site.
Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd is getting ready to go out to tender with a contract for Dawlish to Holcombe Cliff Resilience Works worth up to an estimated £25 million.