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AWARD CATEGORIES 7
Partnership Initiative of the Year
Sponsored by
L-R: Imtech Process boss Bruno Speed; Colin Merrick, of IA+;
Meet the Sponsors Paul Minchin, MD of Saint-Gobain PAM UK; and Rhod Gilbert
Imtech Process is an engineering
contractor dedicated to providing
innovative value-added services across
a wide range of water and waste
engineering solutions. With 250-plus
staff, it delivers measurable
environmental and cost benefits to the
water, waste and industrial markets.
enabling client organisations to secure
world class assets.
Over the years, it has worked with
United Utilities, Northumbrian Water,
Yorkshire Water, Severn Trent Water,
Anglian Water, South Staffs Water,
Thames Water, Three Valleys Water,
Wessex Water and Dwr Cymru Welsh
Water (DCWW).
A couple of Imtech Process’ key
clients in the current AMP4 period
include DCWW – the company forms dopting a true partnership approach scheme in Kinver entailed consulting with
part of the AMA alliance – and Anglian Staffordshire County Council and several other
Water. A
under complex arrangements is why the
judges chose IA+ as the winner of this utility companies and contractors to minimise
Imtech’s Duncan Wildgoose says: category. disruption to the local community.
“A s a sponsor and award entrants we The Integrated Alliance, comprising United The judges praised the initiative, saying
found the awards are a fantastic Utilities (UU), KMI+, GCA and MWH, was excellent results were achieved from something
showcase for the industry, and look formed in 2005 to deliver £1B worth of non- that should be standard practice across the
forward to seeing them go from infrastructure projects as part of UU’s AMP4 cycle. industry. There were also sustainable benefits
strength to strength over the coming Last year, the alliance restructured and became through carbon reduction.
years.” IA+ and had aspirations to be the UK’s premier The judges also praised Welsh Water and
Saint-Gobain PAM UK is the primary capital delivery organisation. Yo r kshire Water for their partnership initiatives.
supplier of ductile iron and cast iron The evolution of IA+ resulted in several Welsh Water and AMA set up Supply Chain
products to the water utilities, benefits, including multimillion-pound savings Business Support Team (BST) at the start of
telecoms, highways, civil engineering, through capital cost efficiencies, and this did not AMP4 which was resourced with procurement
construction and housing sectors. go unnoticed by the judging panel, which said the staff from its 19 AMA partners, and creating a
The company is able to combine the alliance was very focused. The alliance provided a business framework under which all the partners
benefits of a global presence with the model for others to follow for very large work together to achieve the utility’s business
ability to tailor to local specification, to frameworks. objectives.
provide the highest standard of The other finalists in this category were May Yo r kshire Water and strategic partners H2O and
pipelines solutions in today’s UK Gurney and South Staffordshire Water (SSW); Morrison have adopted Service and Value - a
market. Dwr Cymru Welsh Water with Asset Management Question of Balance to drive service improvement
Through continued research and Alliance (AMA); and Yorkshire Water. and reduce operating costs. This innovative
development, it offers innovative, May Gurney and SSW have been working approach covers key areas such as leakage
engineered solutions. together to replace 150km of water mains within reduction; customer experience; and reducing
the utility’s supply region. Their joint occupation customer impacting service failure. WIAA 09
July 2009 Review
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