AG CE High water levels have caused the retaining wall at a bend in the river to collapse, leading the Environment Agency to instruct Severn Trent to make urgent repairs. Abergavenny-based contractor, Alun Griffiths Civil Engineering & ...
Tags: Sykes Pumps, Flood risk, Welshpool
BASF is hosting a week-long program in New York City to address one of the world’s pressing future challenges: urban development to meet our growing population. Thought leaders, scientists, students and citizens are participating in a ...
Tags: BASF, urban development, Chemicals
Nijhuis Water Technology has acquired UK turnkey solutions provider H2OK Water and Energy. H2OK provides anaerobic digestion and effluent treatment to food and beverage customers around the UK and has a strong presence in the holiday and ...
Plans for a 10-hectare solar panel farm at a former airbase in Northamptonshire have been given the go-ahead. The 25,000 solar panels at Chelveston Renewable Energy Park could provide power for more than 2,100 households a year. The ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, bio-oil electricity generators
Higher Knapp Farm in Knapp near Taunton, Somerset has recently rented out a small percentage of its land to solar power generator, Lightsource Renewable Energy. The land will now accommodate a solar farm generating 1.5 MW of green energy ...
Tags: Solar Farm, Green Energy, Higher Knapp Farm
US food manufacturers including PepsiCo, Mondelez International and Hershey have closed offices and factories as Hurricane Sandy moves closer to the country's eastern seaboard. Nestle and Unilever have also confirmed some of their US ...
Tags: food manufacturers, Hurricane Sandy, close offices, close factories
Aon has introduced a fully probabilistic flood catastrophe model for Thailand, aimed to assist global insurers in better understanding risk management exposures. The new model features improved key drivers for understanding flood risk in ...
Tags: global insurers, risk management, Aon, flood catastrophe model
EQECAT and its consulting services group have introduced new catastrophe risk consulting services for the re/insurance, financial, and corporate markets. The new service involves US Flood Portfolio Analysis and Mortgage Impairment Risk ...
ACE and Willis Re Analytics have introduced ACE Cat Web platform to assist companies evaluate their catastrophe exposures, as well as those of their suppliers and customers. The ACE Cat Web Platform uses information on earthquake, storm ...
Tags: ACE, Cat Web, global mapping tool