A new report from the Government’s independent Adviser on climate change is warning that flooding is the greatest direct climate change-related risk to UK infrastructure, while severe water supply deficits are set to deepen and extend across the UK by the 2050s.

Balfour Beatty plc, the international infrastructure group, has announced that it has exited in full from Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Partners LLP in a $64.4 million sale.

The Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin MP, Minister of State at the Department for Transport has said that investment in infrastructure is now even more important and that the UK must be seen to be open for business and building the infrastructure it needs.

Leading engineering and asset management consultancy, Amey has launched Mercury, their new cloud-based data analytics system at this year’s Institute of Asset Management Annual Conference in Edinburgh.

The Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), which provides expert support for the government’s major economic projects, has launched new content for the Project Initiation Routemap for improving project delivery.

The Bam Nuttall and Mott MacDonald (BMM) joint venture between has won two more contracts for flood defence work via the Environment Agency’s Water and Environment Management (WEM) framework.

The National Infrastructure Commission has launched a consultation as part of its responsibility under Government terms of reference to produce a National Infrastructure Assessment (NIA) once every Parliament.

The Government is planning to introduce new legislation to make economic regulators work better , open up markets and promote competition.

Infrastructure investments in water and regulated utility assets are providing some of the lowest internal rates of return for investors, according to the latest infrastructure investors survey from Deloitte.

The Green Construction Board and British Standards Institution have launched a new Publically Available Specification (PAS) document for carbon management in infrastructure.