Costain has secured a contract which will see the smart infrastructure solutions company work alongside partners Stantec, Turner and Townsend and Mace to support Thames Water in the development of a new, client-led Programme Management Office (PMO) to oversee its multi-million pound AMP7 capital programme.
Thames, the UK’s largest water and wastewater services provider, is changing the delivery of its Capital Investment Programme from the previous AMP6 Alliance model to an ‘Intelligent Client’ model to drive greater efficiencies for its 15 million customers.
This will require the progressive build of in-house capabilities in programme, project, commercial and financial management.
Costain will provide consultancy services to support the Thames Water programme in three specific areas:
- Reporting and governance of progress against Thames Water’s AMP7 objectives, outcomes and milestones
- Driving efficient digital delivery across the whole programme to ensure that from definition, solution and need into the capital delivery environment Thames Water will continually be generating efficiencies
- Embedding digital tools across the whole asset investment lifecycle driving the right use of data for decision making, enabling Thames to have ‘one version of the truth’.
Costain said that it will bring leading edge digital knowledge from other major programmes that has worked on, for example the A14, Britain’s biggest road project, where a web-based platform has been developed to coalesce data from multiple sources. The joint venture project was delivered eight months ahead of schedule with £109 million in efficiency savings including £3.5 million from digital initiatives.
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