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.

Businesses are being invited to bid in 2 competitions worth up to £36 million, funding collaborative R&D and demonstrator projects.

A new policy paper from the leading professional body for civil engineers is calling on the government to accept in full the recommendations made in the National Infrastructure Assessment.

The Environment Agency has awarded a number of contracts for its Marine and Coastal Works Framework worth an estimated £220 million in total.

The West of England Combined Authority, in collaboration with regional Councils, has gone out to tender with a contract for professional services to support its regional infrastructure projects worth an estimated £40 million.

Matt Walker, Senior Engineer, at global design and engineering consultancy Atkins, explores how design innovation in the use of building information modelling - BIM - for the Ipswich Flood Barrier delivered significant benefits, including costs and time savings, with the potential for development into an asset information model in the future.

A new report is calling for higher standards in data sharing across the UK’s energy networks to improve its resilience and deliver better results for consumers and the environment. 

Landmark research published this week says that £1.1 billion a year of flood damage is being prevented by the UK’s current network of river barriers and defences. 

The political plates are currently shifting fast, but behind the headlines the debate over who runs the water industry is still rumbling.

Councils in England could face a funding black hole of over £50 billion over the next six years, with local authorities warning they will have to resort to providing the ‘bare minimum’ if no extra funding is made available.