Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has announced today that it has been awarded support services work valued at approximately £130 million from Yorkshire Water and Anglian Water.
Yorkshire Water has awarded Balfour Beatty a contract for the investigation, design and build of its water networks in the southern area of Yorkshire Water’s remit. The contract, which will commence in April 2010 under the AMP5 capital programme, is for five years and is worth £70 million, with an option for a five-year extension
Anglian Water has awarded Balfour Beatty its water networks repair and maintenance with developer services contract. The three-year contract, which will commence in April 2010, is worth £60 million, with an option for a two-year extension and covers an extensive area from the Humber Bridge to Dunstable, including Lincoln, Grimsby, Grantham, Peterborough, Northampton and Milton Keynes.
Balfour Beatty will work with Anglian Water’s network operational staff to improve the network. This is the first repair and maintenance contract that Anglian Water has awarded Balfour Beatty and will enable the two organisations to develop new ways of working which will help drive further efficiencies within the partnership.
Balfour Beatty Chief Executive, Ian Tyler, said:
“Anglian Water, Yorkshire Water and the Highways Agency are long-term customers and we are delighted to be deepening our relationship further with them on these contracts.”These latest contract awards from Anglian Water and Yorkshire Water follow the announcement in January 2010 of the award of two AMP5 capital programme contracts by Anglian Water and United Utilities, worth in the region of £600 million in total.
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