Latest Water & Floods News

Balfour Beatty has completed the first section of the £63M Rossall sea defence scheme for client Wyre Council.

Thames Water is on track to deliver the UK’s biggest sustainable drainage system (SuDS), despite the challenges of working across several developers’ sites at Nine Elms.

Ramboll is to lead the technical team for the development of a new £50M cruise terminal on the River Mersey in Liverpool.

Buses could soon be powered by sewer fatbergs in a bid to find an environmentally friendly way of disposing the problematic waste.

Scottish Water’s £100M Shieldhall Tunnel project has reached its halfway mark under Glasgow’s Pollok Park.

United Utilities has awarded an £85M contract for the construction of a water pipeline in Cumbria to a joint venture between Farrans Construction and Roadbridge.

Serious design and construction flaws led to water flows under Oroville Dam’s main spillway which caused it to crack, according to engineers’ reports.

Yorkshire Water is looking for suppliers to deliver packages worth £1.5bn over the AMP7 five-year period.

The first ever use of the innovative ‘moveable weirs’ in the UK has hit a major milestone as all three weir gates have been installed as part of the Leeds flood alleviation scheme.

The first of three aqueduct bypass tunnels has been completed on time in Birmingham by the BNM Alliance, a JV between North Midland Construction and Barhale.