Completion of a 10-year programme of work in Leeds this autumn has delivered 1 in 200-year flood protection for the city and some engineering firsts for the UK too.
Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £27M contract by Perth and Kinross Council to establish a flood protection scheme in Comrie, aiming to protect 189 properties.
North Ayrshire Council has seen milestones on two flood coastal with offshore works completed on the £48M Millport Flood Protection Scheme and construction of the £4.6M Largs sea wall entering its final stage.
The government has responded to the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) study on reducing the risk of surface water flooding, but has not accepted a number of the report’s recommendations.
Changes to the design and construction guidance for adoptable sewers gives the green light for arch-shaped attenuation chambers.
Irish Rail has awarded Jacobs the contract to develop the "largest coastal protection scheme" in northwestern Europe.
Rewind to the summer of 2007: extreme rainfall in late June and late July led to severe flooding from the Home Counties to Yorkshire and across from the Midlands to South Wales. In all, 55,000 homes and businesses were flooded. Since then, things have changed. The Environment Agency has been…
A “hybrid” flood defence made of glass panels on a concrete base has been installed at New Passage, South Gloucestershire, to preserve views of the Severn Estuary.
Major work started today on the section of the West Coast Main Line between Milton Keynes and Rugby railway stations to protect the tracks from flooding during heavy rainfall events.
Government investment in flood defences is significant, but is it enough? Partnership funding can boost overall investment in such schemes but the private sector’s contribution so far has been low.
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