A new EU-backed project has been launched to demonstrate the first industrial-scale production and use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in Europe. Biofuels Flightpath Initiative was launched 2011 to promote the market developmen...
The 50-megawatt scheme is set to be built on a former military airfield in the northeast of Scotland after planning consent was granted by Scottish ministers. It is the first solar development approved by the Energy Consents Unit (ECU) of the Scotti...
THE Department for Transport has unveiled the next stage of plans for modernising the railway by launching a Digital Rail Strategy. Chris Grayling, Transport secretary, told the audience at an event in York that digital signalling will now be extended to the Northern Transpennine route.
Scottish Water is embarking on a major project on its wastewater infrastructure in the West End of Glasgow to improve the environment and water quality in the River Kelvin. The project forms part of Scottish Water’s £250 million,...
2017 has seen a number of major automobile manufacturers such as Ford, Toyota and Mazda, Volvo, Jaguar Land Rover and General Motors (GM) announce decisions to intensify their move towards electrification.
Industry giants Siemens, Roll-Royce and Airbus are to collaborate on the development of hybrid-electric propulsion for commercial aircraft, an advance that could help cut emissions, aircraft noise and save fuel.
Norway's Statoil (STO) will ramp up its search for oil and gas deposits on the Norwegian continental shelf next year, the company said on Friday. "We are looking at drilling 25 to 30 wells in Norway in 2018.
In order to help the deployment of needed infrastructure, a charging Infrastructure Investment Fund has been set up. It is a major funding boost for London’s electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Wood Group has again confirmed its strong relationship that will unite them to BP as it wins two new engineering contracts related to the development of Mad Dog phase 2 project. Following the recently signed global services agreement with BP, Wood Group was then awarded the $4.
The project to build a materials research centre for the University of Manchester. The plans for the for the Sir Henry Royce Institute scheme were backed by former chancellor George Osborne in the 2014 Autumn Statement.
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South East Water is about to commence work on a multi-million pound upgrade of the Kingston water treatment works, near Canterbury, to improve the quality of its water and to upgrade existing boreholes which collect ground water.
Preparatory works have begun on the first phase of the £120m, 13-mile long drinking water network which is expected to benefit over 200,000 people in Ayrshire and East Renfrewshire. The improvement works follow on from an ann...
California is proposing its most ambitious water project in a half-century. At $15.7 billion, it would run two giant tunnels, each four stories high, for 35 miles under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in Northern California, sending water to cities and farms to the south.
