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GridteamAI · The Wire |
22 September |
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Ofwat · 22 September 2026
Ofwat proposes £822.9m for expanded Havant Thicket reservoir, delayed to 2034
Ofwat's draft decision proposes £822.9m (2021 prices) for Portsmouth Water's expanded Havant Thicket reservoir, lifting capacity from 21 to around 111 megalitres a day. Unexpected geological conditions pushed the operational date back from 2029 to 2034, and Southern Water customers face bill increases of £7.29 to £13.51 a year from 2027.
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Our read
A five-year slip on a reservoir already under construction says more about ground risk on UK water schemes than any headline funding figure does.
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Network Rail · 21 September 2026
Southend East footbridge and lift structures installed, on track for 2027
Network Rail installed the concrete and steel structures for a new accessible footbridge and lifts at Southend East station over the weekend. The upgrade is expected to become operational in spring 2027.
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Our read
Small compared with the M42 lifts, but accessibility works like this rarely get coverage outside the rail trade titles.
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Network Rail · 21 September 2026
Network Rail commits £41m to North West embankment work before winter
Network Rail has completed preventative earthworks across the North West ahead of winter, including £11.5m at Shale Cutting on the Settle to Carlisle line, £9.5m between New Mills and Hague Bar in Derbyshire, and £2m of rock netting at Shap on the West Coast Main Line.
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Our read
Embankment failures cost more in cancelled services than prevention work ever does, so this is the unglamorous end of resilience spend that matters most.
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Uisce Éireann · 21 September 2026
Uisce Éireann replaces 4.8km of ageing water mains in Oola
Uisce Éireann has completed essential upgrades to Oola's water network, replacing 4.8km of ageing mains with stronger pipe designed to cut leaks and bursts.
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HS2 Ltd · 21 September 2026
HS2 finishes six-span M42 viaduct lift during weekend motorway closure
HS2 engineers lifted the final of six viaduct spans across the M42 near Birmingham during a weekend closure, completing the crossing's main structure. A separate team installed the last beams for the adjacent twin-box bridge over the same motorway.
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Two motorway crossings finished in one weekend is a delivery cadence the wider programme still needs to prove it can sustain.
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Construction Enquirer · 21 September 2026
Morgan Sindall wins £35m contract to replace roofs at two Sellafield plants
Morgan Sindall has been awarded a £35m contract to replace 28,500 square metres of failing roofing across Sellafield's Fuel Handling Plant and Site Ion Exchange Effluent Plant. The new roofing is designed to keep the nuclear facilities operating into the 2060s and 2070s.
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Our read
Roofs rarely make headlines, but keeping decades-old nuclear plant weathertight into the 2070s is exactly the unglamorous work decommissioning timelines depend on.
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Uisce Éireann · 20 September 2026
Burst water main on Maynooth Road disrupts supply around Leixlip
A burst water main on the R148 Maynooth Road outside Leixlip disrupted supply across Leixlip, Maynooth, Celbridge and surrounding areas. Uisce Éireann crews worked to restore supply, with repairs targeted for completion by 4pm the same day.
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Construction Magazine · 19 September 2026
YPO and Pagabo appoint 109 firms to £4.3bn UK civils framework
YPO and procurement specialist Pagabo have appointed 109 suppliers to a £4.295bn UK-wide civils framework spanning highways, rail, water, energy, aviation, nuclear and defence works. The figure represents framework capacity rather than committed spend, with actual work depending on individual procurement decisions by public bodies.
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Our read
A framework this wide only tells you who is eligible to bid, not who is building what, but the sector spread signals where public procurement expects demand.
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SEAI · 16 September 2026
SEAI and DAFM sign meter data sharing agreement for energy policy
SEAI and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine have signed an agreement to share MPRN meter data under Ireland's Data Sharing and Governance Act 2019, enabling closer coordination between energy and agriculture policy.
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