Thames Water has recently completed over £50 million worth of infrastructure upgrades across North London to boost resilience, mitigate the risk of bursts and leaks and future proof its clean water supply.

Wessex Water has awarded multiple contracts for its £multi-million pound AMP8 Design and Build Contractors (Minor Works) Framework - the contract was tendered in 2024 via the Achilles UVDB qualification system.

A new report is warning that the Government risks significant increases in consumer water bills and missing its housebuilding targets unless it launches an Olympic-style national champion for reservoirs and hands new powers to regional Mayors.

The Regulators’ Alliance for Progressing Infrastructure Development has published its Annual Review for April 2024 to March 2025 period which flags up RAPID's achievements and areas for improvement. Key concerns highlighted by stakeholders include capacity and delivery confidence, with supply chain readiness, funding models, and programme management identified as areas of uncertainty.

In his new role as Housing Secretary at the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Steve Reed has announced that the Government has given the go-ahead to the largest number of major infrastructure projects in the first year of a Parliament in history.

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.

The Environment Agency and a wide range of partners have completed the Outstrays Managed Realignment Scheme, creating 250ha of intertidal habitat by embankment realignment at a total cost of £56.3 million.

 Multiple critical government programmes could be left out of plans to strengthen governance of so-called ‘mega projects’ according to a new report from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

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.