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Future vision for sewage
of the weak. Struggling Mouchel is now being eyed by Costain, seeking to expand its consultancy offering alongside
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its other engineering activities. The sector is still depressed, AMP5 is not properly under way. Atkins has cut over 900 jobs since September and directors of consultancies like Gronmij are warning that the current market conditions will last through 2011, especially in the UK. While acquisitions may feature more in the coming months, and the supply chain waits for AMP5 to really kick in, a change in the infrastructure landscape is also heralded. The sustainability agenda means water and energy are becoming much more closely aligned.
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www.web4water.co.uk IV Ofwat’s perspective
Chief executive Regina Finn shares her views on the direction the industry is heading
VI Pump systems
Installing the most efficient blowers for aeration at Singapore’s largest MBR plant was a key consideration for the Public Utility Board, says Nigel Jackson, projects manager for ABS
VIII Asset Management
Ofwat wants evidence that water companies are implementing asset management best practice. Chris Roxburgh, Black & Veatch’s director of asset management, outlines ways to make the grade
X Consultant and contractor frameworks Essential information about the companies winning the frameworks in the UK in AMP5
XIX Expertise files
At a glance guides to sourcing the right consultant, tier 1 and tier 2 contractors for your project
XXII Contact file Make the connection with the skills you need XVIII CRL water tank refurb completed January 2011 Consultant and Contractor File III VI Singapore success for ABS IV Regina Finn on regulation
Scottish Water has given the clearest signal of this objective, with the Scottish Nationalist Party government determined to use the land, water and plant resources of the publically owned utility to maximise renewable power generation as well as deliver drinking water.
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Meanwhile, an international research project commissioned by STOWA, the Dutch Foundation for Applied Water Research, has determined that sewage works should become ‘energy factories’. Researchers recommend that enhancing the primary sedimentation of wastewater by adding chemicals can create an energy-neutral plant, before the deployment of energy-generating techniques such as thermal hydrolysis. The first such facility is being built in Utrecht and other concepts to make better use of waste include recovering resources such as phosphates and reusing wastewater for boilers and agriculture. MWH’s Paul Roeleveld, who helped author the research report, said: “Currently, the focus is on energy factories, but the challenge is to combine the three concepts into one: nutrient-energy-water factories, or NEWs.
”Job losses and an age of austerity make it difficult to envisage any future, let alone a sustainable one, but the sewage treatment plant of the future is under development and waste is becoming a valuable resource.  Natasha Wiseman, editor
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