Latest Water & Floods News

Entries are now open for the 2023 TechFest Awards, with new categories added to celebrate innovation in even more areas of civil engineering and construction.

With Defra’s decision the implement Schedule 3, sustainable drainage systems (SuDs) and the water held within, will become a crucial part of designing new developments for towns and cities.

A "catalogue of failures" by Anglian Water led to sewage flowing into the North Sea and the firm has been fined £2.7M for its failings.

The Environment Agency (EA) and Surrey County Council (SCC) are working together as partners to deliver the River Thames Scheme (RTS). The scheme is a climate adaptation project combining flood resilience with wider environmental needs such as the adequacy, quality and accessibility of open green space.

Southern Water has started the tender process for its £700M capital infrastructure framework for asset management plan 8 (AMP8), 2025 to 2030.

The Welsh Government has committed £75M to help develop and construct flood defence projects around the country for 2023-24.

Ministers have pledged to make it illegal for water companies to send sewage into the natural environment where it can cause harm.

Northumbrian Water is looking to engage with design and construct organisations on managing a “step change” in how it collaborates, manages risk and coordinates work in its £4.5bn capital investment programme for asset management period 8 (AMP8), 2025 to 2030.

Tideway has updated its cost estimate for the Thames Tideway Tunnel to £4.5bn, taking into account the remaining work programme and the impacts of inflation.

Work on Centre Port UK, billed as the world’s first tidal powered deep-sea container terminal, could commence in 2025, with completion planned by 2030.