Tag Archives: Flooding

The ambitious Lagoon Hull project aims to protect the city from flooding, while improving transport connectivity and reinvigorating the local economy. 

Inspections are underway on Scotland’s Union Canal to check for further damage after engineers successfully plugged a major breach in the waterway late last week and work to assess the landslide on the A68 near Edinburgh continues.

Official opening of a new park in Manchester last week could set the tone for future landscaping as designer move nature-based solutions to combat the effects of climate change and reduce stormwater flooding.

Tuesday’s Supermoon will pull more on the oceans which could result in the Thames Barrier closing, according to the Environment Agency.

Engineers have called for an overhaul of flood defence funding and of the way the UK tackles flooding.  Commenting on the impact of the latest floods in Yorkshire, Wales and the West Midlands, Atkins client director Simon Leek warned that the changing climate means that flood protection must be rethought.…

Environment Agency chief executive James Bevan has called for communities to consider relocating away from areas at risk of continual flooding or coastal erosion. The Environment Agency chief has said that a "twin approach" to dealing with the threat of flooding will need to see homes and towns become more…

As the rain continues to fall across the South West, New Civil Engineer headed to one of the key flood flashpoints at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire to see first hand the impact of storms Ciara and Dennis on communities in the region.

Flooding has brought rail networks across the UK to a standstill, after already waterlogged grounds faced another weekend of rain.

Engineers are continuing their work to bring power back to thousands of homes in the UK, to clear rail lines of debris and to restore business as usual on the UK’s motorways after Storm Ciara battered the UK’s infrastructure network on Sunday and into Monday.

In Dublin, Aecom has designed flexible flood defences which have opened up part of the city to tourists and housing developers.