In an Expert Focus article for Waterbriefing, Adrian Johnson, Technical Director and Sustainability Leader at Stantec, discusses why the path to demonstrating more social value and natural capital benefit in the water sector, for net zero carbon emissions, must be fit for purpose – and how to get there.

VSBW, a joint venture between VolkerStevin and Boskalis Westminster has been appointed as the main contractor for delivering new sea defences in Southsea worth £100 million.

Yorkshire Water has awarded civils framework contracts worth £1 billion in total for 2020-2025, covering the full range of civil engineering requirements across its clean and wastewater assets.

Thames Water has again been recognised as an industry leader for its commitment to the environment in a global infrastructure sustainability survey.

Water industry regulator Ofwat has launched a search for a Managing Director to head up the Regulators’ Alliance for Progressing Infrastructure Development (RAPID).

A broad group of eighteen civil society organisations has written to Sajid Javid MP ahead of this week’s Spending Review and Budget saying that the government will need to more than double public investment on climate and nature, from the current £17 billion a year to at least £42 billion.

Angus Council in Scotland has gone out to tenders with a contract for the construction of a flood defence scheme for Arbroath worth an estimated £8 million in total. 

Northumbrian Water is working with Durham University and a company called Intelligent Gels, to help prevent tree roots from damaging the sewer network and increasing the risk of flooding and pollution.

Thames Water has gone out to tender with a contract for building construction work covering the provision of building renovation and remedial works worth almost £18 million in total.

Global leader in optimised resource management, Veolia, has been awarded two four year framework agreements that will deliver new water and wastewater infrastructure for Irish Water.