NEWS Yorkshire announces delivery team


Yorkshire Water has announced the service partners that will deliver in the region of £1Bn of work as part of its planned investment programme across Yorkshire. Eight contract partners


and three framework


consultants have received an extension of their agreement for the next Asset Management Period (AMP) 2015-2020, set to futureproof the company’s treatment works against extreme weather conditions, help protect the local environment and continue to guarantee a secure supply of drinking water. The consultants are Arup, MWH and Turner & Townsend. The contract partners are Byzak Entec, Earthtech Morrison (ETM), Morgan Sindall Grontmij, Barhale WSP, Mott MacDonald Bentley, Black & Veatch,


An aerial view of works at


Scarborough, part of a £50M Yorkshire Water investment to improve bathing water quality in AMP5


Morrison Utility Services and Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions. Nevil Muncaster, director of asset delivery at Yorkshire Water, said, “We are committed to ensuring that we give our customers the best possible service for the lowest possible price and our major investment plans for the next five years play a huge part in this. Our contract partners and consultants


take great pride in their service alongside Yorkshire Water and this news is testament to their strong performance.


“The next step is to review the AMP6 programme with our partners, optimising AMP6 investment so we are well-placed to deliver the best value asset solutions. We’re committed to working in a more integrated way to further boost collaboration and efficiency and are now in the best possible shape to plan ahead for AMP6.”


Yorkshire Water’s biggest capital investment of AMP5 has been at the Blackburn Meadows wastewater treatment works in Sheffield where specialist contractor ETM has been working on improvements to the site since March 2012 (see page 12).


Baggs joins ‘Question Time’ panel


Thames Water’s chief executive, Martin Baggs is taking part in the London leg of a series of Question Time style events being organised by British Water. The trade association will soon announce panels for the series of events for the water industry taking place


AMP TRACKER


Model contract for Mouchel


Severn Trent Water (STW) has awarded infrastructure and business services group, Mouchel, an extension worth in excess of £600,000 to pro- vide specialist services under its AMP5 SynerGEE model- ling framework. The award represents a 50% increase on previous years and over one- third of the overall framework spend.


Over the last few years, Mouchel has been successful in winning work comprising a combination of zonal analy- sis and model build studies. These studies have helped to promote the use of network


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analysis for STW which are now included within its annual programme of work. Andrew Rowland, techni- cal delivery manager for Mouchel’s water consulting business, said: “The increase in the value of work which we have won clearly demon- strates [STW’s] confidence in our modelling capability and gives us an excellent opportu- nity to further our close work- ing relationship with them.”


Site maintenance expert unites with UU


Scottish engineering firm Panton McLeod has secured a three-year framework


agreement with United Utili- ties (UU) which will include carrying out repairs to existing water retaining structures This includes, but is not limited to, service reservoirs, water tow- ers, and water tanks. Most of the work will be carried at clean water sites, but waste- water will be included where necessary.


Darren Clark, service reservoir team leader at UU, said: “We have a long history of working with Panton MacLeod and we are delighted to now be in a framework agreement with them. We have always been hugely impressed with the firm’s ability and dedication to ensuring the maximum


amount of work is done with the minimum disruption to water facilities, and are look- ing forward to working with them from now on.”


Eric Wright proves an asset


Eric Wright Civil Engineer- ing (EWCE), a division of the Eric Wright Group, has been awarded a framework with UU. The agreement, which is for an initial three years, with the option to extend for a further seven, is for asset maintenance support. It will help the utility to deliver main- tenance and enhancement to various UU treatment facilities in the Lancashire area.


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in Lymm in Cheshire (3 October), London (9 October) and Solihull (23 October).


British Water Question Time will follow a similar format to its BBC namesake, with high level guests and an opportunity for the audience to take them to task. Taking up the


‘Dimbleby’ mantle will be president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Richard


Coakley; British Water


chair, Mark Lane and Professor Tom Stephenson of Cranfield University. For more information,


visit www.britishwater.co.uk or email jeremy.bayfield@britishwater.co.uk


Severn Trent partners council on FOG


Severn Trent Water (STW) is joining forces with Birmingham City Council (BCC)


to tackle sewer blockages


caused by fats, oils and grease (FOG). The partnership aims to raise awareness of the problems caused by sewer misuse. At a meeting on 15 July, Neerja Upadhyay, infrastructure strategy manager at Severn Trent Water, told the council’s partnership scrutiny committee that there were 55,000 blockages within the Severn Trent region last year and 76% of were due to sewer misuse. She highlighted a particular hotspot north of Birmingham’s city centre where there are 209 food service establishments “causing 550 sewer blockages” a year.


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UKWIR report offers


asset risk framework A new report from UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) presents a risk modelling framework for asset management. Available for purchase, UKWIR says it is an excellent source for people involved with asset management.


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