Pillar Talk
Digging Deep for Scotland’s Highest Village
The CID Infrastructure South Team dug deep to help one of Scotland’s highest villages.
During last winter’s Big Freeze, residents of Leadhills in South Lanarkshire spent around a month without water as prolonged extreme temperatures caused service pipes to freeze, cutting off connections from Scottish Water mains into customers’ homes.
Scottish Water contractors brought in the New Year replacing these short lengths of pipe to ensure customers returned to supply. Meanwhile, thousands of litres of bottled water was distributed to villagers.
In August the team was asked to plan a project to ensure Scottish Water’s assets were protected,
effectively burying our pipes deeper to ensure the network was better equipped to deal with such prolonged extreme temperatures.
Working under tight time constraints, with winter looming, CID’s Jacky Wang and the team pulled out all the stops. The Assets Recovery team met with the community and key stakeholders to outline their plans and the project
With the addition of a ‘trencher’ to the project, steady progress was made and the team were weeks ahead of schedule. High winds and extreme rains hit the project, and this advantage was lost. Providing additional manpower allowed further progress to be made with the project delivered in time for Christmas.
Galliford Try award for Meadowhead- Stevenston work
Galliford Try’s team in the Meadowhead and Stevenston waste water improvement project has won the annual Galliford Try Infrastructure Division Business Excellence Award 2011 for Project of the Year for projects with a value of more than £10m.
The team won the award for its achievements in collaboration, health and safety, quality, ecology, sustainability and delivery to time and budget.
Pictured are, from left to right, Steve Mason, section manager, and Dominic Moynihan, JV project manager, with the award.
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