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ATi monitors DO for Thames Electrochemical sensor manufacturer Analytical Technology Inc (ATi) has been awarded a three-year framework agreement by Thames Water, seeing off eight competitors during the bid process. The new agreement will see the Manchester-based company installing its optical dissolved oxygen (DO) monitors across multiple Thames Water wastewater treatment works (WwTW) in order to improve process control.
ATi was required to meet a rigorous vendor assessment standard which showed that the company had provided excellent customer support for their disinfection monitors already installed within Thames Water. Analytical Technology also demonstrated capital cost savings as well as project and whole-life savings, which will be achieved through lower maintenance and reduced cost for spares.
Grontmij scoops £4M SCADA contract
Dutch engineering consultancy Grontmij has been awarded a £4M contract for the programme and project management of Thames Water’s supervisory control & data acquisition (SCADA) project. Grontmij is one of a number of suppliers and contractors selected for the £95M programme of work for AMP5, providing a programme management office and acting as project manager for regional SCADA and site SCADA projects. Work includes the migration of three separate regional systems into a single new central system, the
Scottish ambition required
The Scottish Government is undertaking further consultation in advance of the Scottish Water Bill, it announced on 5 November. The Government says the Bill is intended to enable Scottish Water to evolve into a “more dynamic organisation”, better able to exploit its natural assets for the benefit of water customers, the environment and the economy.
ATi’s DO monitors will be installed at numerous Thames Water sites
replacement of up to 89 site SCADA systems across a range of different types and sizes of facility, as well as specialist technical and asset management support. Grontmij will be working with the consultancy Mace Group to deliver the project.
Haigh secures frameworks
Wastewater specialist Haigh Engineering has secured a large number of frameworks to continue delivering small screens and prefabricated inlets systems.
New products including the ACE Bandscreener, the LS405 liquid separator unit and the Macipump storm system. The company’s customer include Severn Trent, Southern, Wessex, Anglian, South West, Yorkshire, Scottish and Northumbrian Water.
Morgan Sindall wins mains contract
UK infrastructure company Morgan Sindall has been awarded a £700,000 contract to install and commission two new water mains in Polegate, East Sussex, for South East Water. The contract is in addition to the work Morgan Sindall has been carrying out over the last three years as part of South East Water’s AMP5 Period Maintenance Contract.
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In a statement, Infrastructure Minister Stewart Stevenson said: “The Government has decided to increase its ambition for the Scottish Water Bill, enabling a more extensive role for Scottish Water as a publicly owned company.” He said the consultation process would “enable us to test whether any borrowing measures that come forward in the UK Government’s Scotland Bill are of any practical use in this or any other regard.” Liberal Democrat finance spokesperson, Jeremy Purvis MSP, called the Bill’s postponement “an embarrassing shambles”. “We are
told that the Bill presented to the Presiding Officer wasn’t ambitious or imaginative enough, despite the SNP writing it,” he said.
First Minister, Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) leader Alex Salmond, surprised political commentators when he set out the intention to introduce a Scottish Water Bill in his Programme for Government 2010- 11 on 8 September. He announced a vision that would turn Scotland into “the world’s first hydro-economy - wisely exploiting our water to help drive our economy.”
It is expected that the Bill will propose a loosening of the regulations on Scottish Water which confine its activities to water and sewerage. This would free up the utility to get involved in not only hydro, but using its landmass and assets for wind farms, biomass and other renewable energy initiatives. The Government believes the company, one of the country’s last remaining state-owned firms, could generate £300M in extra revenues.
Stormwater demand up
Surface and stormwater management company SDS has nearly doubled its turnover, taking it to £12M for the year ending 31 May. The company’s 46% increase on the previous year has meant that the SDS’s three manufacturing facilities in the British Isles have been running at full capacity.
It has also become the UK’s biggest user of grade B recycled PVC, the material that its geocellular storage products are made from. Although the company recognises that it has gone through a high growth period, it is nevertheless investing in new machinery to increase capacity by 100%.
Register your interest in FOG
A steering group for FOG that has been just formed through British Water is inviting interested parties to register their interest in specific FOG Topic Areas. It is expected that these will develop into the working group programme.
The FOG Forum Steering Group (FOGSG) has been formed comprising of trade associations, professional bodies, a chair and an information and research
advisor. The Forum is supported by government departments and standards bodies.
For more information email
info@britishwater.co.uk or visit
www.web4water.com/FOG.
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