News
Royal Haskoning chosen for surface
water management project
Royal Haskoning, the has only recently become
independent engineering and the responsibility of local
environmental consultancy, authorities. This project is
has been commissioned is to one of the first concerted
study surface water flooding in attempts to plan surface water
Staffordshire. management. However, Royal
The firm has been Haskoning has experience in
appointed by a coalition of flood risk management at a
local councils in the area to national level.
help them draw up urban The Surface Water
development plans. The region Management Plan will be
has been badly affected by delivered in two stages. The
surface water flooding in recent first will involve development
years. This new study should of a steering committee of Haskoning told Impact: “This development.”
help reduce the risk of flooding key project stakeholders is a pioneering effort on the Naomi Perry, planning
on areas that are developed and conducting high level part of these councils to officer at Stafford Borough
over the next twenty years analytical modelling of bring to light some of the Council, added: “Royal
by highlighting high risk flood risk in the four local lesser-understood sources Haskoning’s expertise in this
locations. It will also provide authority areas. The second of surface water flooding area will serve us well by
future planning information on phase will see a detailed risk and develop appropriate creating the visibility that will
water resources and sewerage assessment, and evaluation of Water Cycle Strategies in a be needed to enable growth
capacity. its findings. way that safeguards their in each of the districts to be
Water surface management Mike Stringer of Royal ambitions for local growth and delivered”.
MWH and Betty Williams
Site waste
donate to Mountain Rescue
management plans
Betty Williams MP teamed up she feels strongly about.
with Andrew Cowell of MWH Member of Ogwen Valley
to donate £500 to members Mountain Rescue received the
boost small business
of the Ogwen Valley Mountain donation at Parliament and
Rescue this Christmas. were shown around the inside A new survey suggests Debbie Chatting, Strategic
Consulting engineering of Parliament. They also saw small engineering firms Marketing Manager at
firm MWH made £1,000 the Speaker’s procession into have benefited from better NetRegs.gov.uk, commented:
available to Ms Williams to the Commons. environmental practices over “This is further proof that good
donate to charity at the ACE Ms Williams donated the the last year. environmental performance
Parliamentary Reception last other half of her prize to Wales Netregs, the government helps the bottom line, as
year. Having won the raffle Ms Air Ambulance. ACE made a agency for environmental well as the environment. It’s
Williams decided to divide the donation alongside that to it’s guidance, has found a great to see that small and
money between two charities partner charity RedR. sharp rise in small firms that medium sized construction
believe that having site waste businesses are responding to
management plans (SWMPs) the marketplace demand for
wins them additional contracts. environmental improvements
At the end of 2009, 30 by using SWMPs, and are
percent more small and seeing financial success as
medium sized construction a result. The industry needs
firms said they felt SWMPs to think long term and take
won them new business by a proactive approach to
boosting their environmental environmental responsibility
credentials. now, and not use the
The news supports a recession as an excuse to
previous finding that 19 out of ignore it. Creating and using
20 large client firms would give a greener approach on a daily
preference to environmentally basis will pay dividends to
sound suppliers when construction businesses in the
awarding contracts. long run.”
Impact • February/March 2010 | 
Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24