National Grid has completed the first stage of a £130 million project to refurbish its overhead line network between Lincoln and Stevenage.
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United Utilities and tech firm Changemaker 3D have demonstrated the use of 3D printed concrete components – or ‘printfrastructure’ – in what’s being slated as a first for the UK water sector.
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A new Scottish Water-backed treatment plant and distribution network is coming on stream in the Scottish Highlands. Utility Week Innovate explores a raft of joint venture-led innovation four years in the pipeline.
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Mike de Silva, head of sustainability at construction firm Clancy, discusses the need for alternative solutions, data sharing and cultural change around carbon and energy intensive building materials if utilities are to hit net zero targets.
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Experts from employer of the year at the 2021 Utility Week Awards, UKPN, and 2022 Water Industry Awards Diversity & Inclusion Initiative of the Year finalist, United Utilities, explain their recruitment strategies to engage traditionally hard-to-reach applicants.
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Though gas detection and monitoring have long been a key part of health and safety in the water sector, it’s a topic that the Covid pandemic has driven up the industry’s agenda according to Draeger Safety UK’s Adam Pope.
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Carl Ennis, CEO of Siemens GB&I and chair of Net Zero North West, explores how investing in net zero innovation could be the key to successfully spreading opportunity more equally across the UK.
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What can the utilities sector learn from the wastewater treatment solutions in place to protect lakes and rivers from contaminants during the construction of HS2?
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London Power Tunnel team members celebrated the completion of the first of five drives by its four tunnel boring machines in south London as part of National Grid’s £1 billion project to rewire London.
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Pan-utility experts outlined how they’ve adapted to cost and customer outcome pressures alongside changing approaches to staff engagement, productivity and happiness triggered by Covid-19.
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National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) chief executive James Heath argues it is neither possible nor desirable to avoid all climate risks, saying: “The idea that we’re going to build our way out of climate change doesn’t seem realistic."
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Utility Week Innovate catches up with Water Industry Award Rising Star nominee, Stantec civil engineer India Hutchinson, to reflect on her three years in utilities thus far and the need for greater diversity and inclusion in construction.
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