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,...
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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.
Sutton and East Surrey Water’s £22m project to upgrade Woodmansterne Treatment Works in Chipstead, Surrey, has been awarded to Doosan Enpure who will deliver the works as principal contractor.
According to Rigzone, 71% of respondents in a survey of 963 UK oil workers are considering moving overseas to find work due to a lack of job security in the North Sea and Scotland. 52% of those surveyed by Rigzone also reported a lack of co...
Northumbrian Water’s Warkworth Water Treatment Works (WTW) is to undergo a £2.2m refurbishment in a bid to help maintain and enhance top quality drinking water for the future. The facility currently treats up to 42 mill...
United Utilities has started work on a major sewer improvement scheme in Trafford Park, Manchester. Gloria, a 140 tonne tunnel boring machine, has begun digging beneath Trafford Park as part of a project to improve the water quality in the Manchester Ship Canal.
Completion of Beckton Sewage Treatment Works (STW) has moved a step closer since the take-over of Section Five having been granted at the site by Thames Water. Section Six – the final scope of the works – is expected to be completed by March 2015.
Northumbrian Water is currently advertising a new design and construction framework worth £320m which covers the AMP6 spending period. It is now looking for three contractors to deliver water and wastewater treatment works over the next ten years.
Working in partnership, Southwark Council and Thames Water, with the support of the Environment Agency, are delivering a project on behalf of Thames Water to reduce the risk of sewer and surface water flooding in the Dulwich and Herne Hill area.
The 3.1 mile waste water tunnel will be a major part of Scottish Water’s £250m five-year programme to upgrade the waste water network in the Glasgow area. The tunnel will be the biggest storm water tunnel in Scotland and will im...
A BAM Nuttall and Mott Macdonald joint venture has been awarded a works contract for a flood alleviation scheme in Leeds, designed to provide Leeds homes and businesses with protection from a 1 in 75 year flood from the River Aire and Hol Beck.
Southern water has invested £25m on upgrading the Millbrook wastewater treatment works due to the need to cut nitrogen levels in effluent water being discharged into the Test Estuary. The main driver behind this project is du...
