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AnglianWater returns toRotork after
signing newframework agreement The new agreement covers the supply of products and services to AnglianWater.
Rotork is pleased to announce the award of a new framework agreement for the supply of its products and services to Anglian Water, who supply water and water recycling services tomore than sixmillion customers in the east of England and Hartlepool. The Anglian region stretches fromthe Humber estuary, north of Grimsby, to the Thames estuary, and from Buckinghamshire to Lowestoft on the east coast. Over 112,000 kilometres of water and sewer pipes supply and transport water and waste water to and fromthe 1,257 water and water recycling treatment works. Under the new agreement Rotork will
provide intelligent electric IQ actuators and modular electric CK actuators. Rotork will be one of only two companies to provide actuation solutions to AnglianWater. After a decade with another actuator manufacturer, the IQ intelligent electric actuators installed during the previous framework agreement continue to be used on AnglianWater sites. Additionally, IQ range actuators continued to be supplied during the period between the two agreements,maintaining a Rotork relationship and cementing the brand as efficient and reliable.
This agreement brings with it the prospect of potentially hundreds of applications for Rotork’s products, encompassing the flow
of effluent, clean water, steamand
chemicals.Meanwhile, Rotork Site Services will be working closely with AnglianWater to provide preventativemaintenance advice, product testing, repairs and upgrades, helping to ensure reliable and efficient operation at their sites.
Infrastructure falling short of social value potential
The societal impact of infrastructure projects is being hampered by systemic shortcomings across the sector, according to new research. A research report, published today, highlights missed opportunities in delivering wide-ranging, socio-economic benefits for individuals, communities and local economies. It outlines changes that could prevent this and create additional social value from infrastructure projects. Co-funded by the Institution of Civil Engineers’Research and Development Enabling Fund and Useful Projects, the report says infrastructure should go beyond basic functionality andwork to improve socio-economic inequalities, create jobs for previously unemployed people and provide broader benefits for communities based on local needs. Useful Projects Director, Judith Sykes, who led the research, said: "Investment in infrastructure development will be a major component of our economic recovery post COVID-19. If the UK is to deliver on the levelling up agenda and address the growing inequalities that have been highlighted through lockdown,we
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must make sure that social value creation is core to the investment case and delivered throughout design, construction and operation." The report,Maximising Social Value from Infrastructure Projects, offers observations and suggestions for stakeholders including local and national Government, infrastructure clients and industry associations. These include: - Greater ambition and creativity to maximise social value beyond apprenticeships and SME involvement in the supply chain - Plug implementation gaps that exist throughout the project lifecycle, through which opportunities to create and deliver social value are being lost - Target greater consistency regarding definitions, organisational approaches and measurement methods - Use the vast budgetary and geographical scales associated with infrastructure to deliver greater social value from projects The report also makes specific recommendations for the Institution and other industry associations. These include
the development of a common definition for social value for the built environment, a commitment to raise the profile of, and provide guidance around, social value, and the incorporation of social value into standard contract models. Mark Hansford, ICE Director of Engineering Knowledge, said: “Social value has long been a key part of infrastructure projects but will assume an even more crucial role as the sectorworks towards its sustainability goals and society emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic. “This report should serve as a timely reminder as to the importance of social value and the ICE will be taking forward its recommendations to help informan upcoming policy paper, our Net Zero Task Force and the Sustainability RouteMap programme.” The research findings will be discussed at an onlinewebinar on 30 June. The event, chaired by Bev Hurley CBE, Chair of the Institute of Economic Development (IED), will also cover an IED project, titled ‘From the Ground Up - Improving the delivery of Social Value in Construction'.
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