Campaigners have handed a petition to the Prime Minister’s residence demanding sea defences to protect Hemsby, a Norfolk village north of Great Yarmouth, from coastal erosion.
Portsmouth City Council is seeking a contractor to construct a £22.3M coastal defence scheme at Ports Creek.
The River Thames Scheme (RTS) has called for candidates to come forward to deliver 8km of new flood channels along with new biodiverse open space for the public.
Sea defences in Selsey, West Sussex, could undergo a significant upgrade if a bid from Chichester District Council to the Environment Agency is successful.
33 projects across the UK have been awarded £33M by the UK Government’s fourth clean maritime demonstration competition (CMDC4) to accelerate the decarbonisation of the country’s ports and shipping industry.
Over the past two decades or so, we have witnessed more extreme storm events due to climate change, leading to increased rainfall intensity and more frequent consecutive storms. In New Civil Engineer on 9 January 2024 there was an article under the heading ‘we can’t engineer our way out’ of…
The mayor of London has penned a letter to Thames Water’s chief executive lambasting the company for its part in sewage spills causing the capital to lose its last “healthy, clean” river.
Scottish Water has appointed BPD Zenith to provide asset management transformation services as part of a six-year £5.8bn strategic maintenance and improvement plan.
Plans are progressing for a critical defence against worsening tidal flood risk in the town of Bridgewater, Somerset, despite a budget blow out caused by inflation and material cost hikes.
Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) has been successfully trialled by the British Geological Survey (BGS) for discovering burrowing animals at an embankment on the River Ouse in North Yorkshire.
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