Anglian Water has begun the search for framework contractors for its AMP6 investment programme worth up to £2 billion.
Doran Consulting, McAdam Design and RPS Planning & Development have been appointed to a £30 million framework by Northern Ireland Water to assist in delivery of projects in its Capital Works Programme.
Thames Water has awarded the Water Research Centre (WRc) a Trunk Mains Leak Detection Framework agreement.
The latest figures published by financial information services company Markit show that construction sector output fell again in November.
Global water tech firm Xylem has won a major contract to treat municipal drinking water for a new high-tech industrial zone in Korea.
Scottish Water has started the procurement process for a contractor to design and build its proposed £100m 5km long sewer tunnel in Glasgow.
United Utilities has gone out to tender with a contract for construction of a new wastewater treatment plant at its existing Davyhulme treatment works – estimated value is between £123 million to £170 million, depending on the solution which is finally selected.
A consortium comprising Galliford Try Investments Ltd, Equitix Holdings Ltd, Kier Projects Investments Ltd and John Graham Holdings Ltd, has reached financial close on the South West Scotland hub initiative to deliver £600 million of public sector infrastructure projects over the next ten years.
Torbay Council, acting as the lead organisation on behalf of a group of Public Bodies in the South West region, has selected the eight firms for the south west consultants framework which will run till 2016.
United Utilities has appointed Black & Veatch to support its new Ecology Consultancy Services Framework.
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.