A new report by Atkins, has found that a risk adverse culture within the infrastructure sector and a lack of certainty about which new technologies to invest in could cost the UK millions of pounds in efficiency savings and restrict the ability of its businesses to capitalise on the global digital revolution.

Severn Trent is trialling satellite technologies to detect leakage from space – the water company is already using drones to spot leaks from the air.

The World Water Council says that over €255 billion euros must be invested in water infrastructure globally every year until 2030 due to climate change.

A 200 tonne tidal gate engineered and constructed in Holland has arrived in Suffolk, ready to be installed at Ipswich’s new flood barrier.

Yorkshire Water has gone out tender with a major civils framework contract covering all civil engineering based activity worth an estimated £300 million in total.

Stephen Bourne, Atlanta-based project director at Atkins, talks about a new tool which can help cities strengthen their resilience in the face of population growth and the growing impacts of climate change.

Both business and the public are concerned about the pace of delivery and a record number of firms are dissatisfied with the state of infrastructure in their region, according to the 2017 CBI/AECOM Infrastructure Survey.

The UK government has launched a review and public consultation of the implications of foreign ownership or control of crtical infrastructure and how it can best ensure that investments and takeovers do not raise national security concerns.

UK construction product manufacturers are expecting slower growth in sales and activity as cost rises and slowing construction output continue to weaken market conditions, according to the Construction Products Association (CPA) latest State of Trade Survey for 2017 Q3.

Northumbrian Water has gone out to tender with a contract to upgrade the capacity at its Barsham Water Treatment Works at Beccles in Suffolk  worth an estimated £10 million.