Southern Water has gone out to tender with an AMP7 contract to supply and maintain various types of valves, actuators and penstocks etc. worth an estimated £6.4 million.
Over three days in August, Ham Baker was invited by Thames Water to present a full day’s awareness training course to their Trunk Sewer Operations team, to help them understand the fundamentals of Penstocks and to deploy a more proactive approach to maintaining this critical asset base used to control and regulate wastewater and sewerage in the Thames network.
The Environment Agency has announced that it will hold a Supplier Engagement Day in September to outline its plans to put a MEICA Operational Framework in place with an estimated value of £11 million.
Sulzer has launched a new global Center of Excellence (CoE) for Water Treatment Solutions - the CoE consolidates Sulzer’s wastewater treatment expertise in a unified and global manner.
“SAS (Surplus Activated Sludge) is a bit weird and can do odd things,” says Stuart Chatten, Lead Bioresources Technician at Whitlingham Water Recycling Centre (WRC), one of Anglian Water’s principal centres for processing sewage, serving a population of 400,000.
Owen Mace has taken over as Director of the British Plastics Federation (BPF) Plastic Pipes Group on the retirement of Caroline Ayres. He was previously Standards and Technical Manager for the group.
PureTec Separations, the Ledbury-based water treatment engineering firm, has appointed Dan Norman as its new Sales Manager – Water Process Systems, supporting the company’s continued growth in the UK and international markets.