Liverpool Wastewater Treatment Works
BIM helps deliver significant savings on major utilities project in Liverpool
Client
Contract Value Duration
United Utilities £130 million 36 months
Asset in use date August 2015
As part of the Galliford Try-Costain-Atkins joint venture, process alliance partners to United Utilities, Atkins delivered a 3D model to act as a ‘single source of truth’ and the core of the design process. It has promoted a culture in which the project team have been able to explore alternative concepts, conduct value engineering and optimise designs. It has also enabled the team to plan and rehearse construction, enabling collaboration and integration between our designers, constructors, process partners, supply chain and client in a far more efficient way than ever before. This in tern has led to improved cost effective co-ordination, build ability, operability and maintainability.
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...By employing BIM, GCA has cultivated a collaborative working environment throughout the supply chain, ensuring that everyone is focussed on achieving best value on the project to take it forward through its lifecycle...” Neil Colman
Engineering and capital delivery director for United Utilities
What We Did
Atkins worked with United Utilities (UU), one of the UK’s largest water and wastewater companies, to develop a new wastewater treatment plant in the existing Wellington Dock on the River Mersey at Liverpool. The team was appointed to the £130 million project in 2011 as part of a joint venture with Costain and Galliford Try.
Atkins’ role focused on the detailed design of the facility. A 16-cell, two-level sequence batch reactor (SBR), complete with pumping station, sludge treatment plant, distribution chambers, blower building and control centre was built inside a disused dock, adjacent to UU’s Sandon Dock Treatment Works.
Atkins produced a BIM strategy to support design and construction and encourage collaboration. This intelligent, data-rich resource helped the team deliver significant time, cost and safety benefits for the client.
18 | BIM Collaborating for success
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