United Utilities has gone out to tender for early contractor involvement in project development for its £750 million Manchester and Pennines scheme.
Ofwat has set out its expectations for high quality and well evidenced proposals for direct procurement for customers (DPCs) in the water companies' PR19 business plans for the upcoming Price Review in 2019.
Ahead of next week's World Water-Tech Innovation Summit in London, Guy Ledger, Client Director at Atkins provides the inside track on direct procurement ahead of the session he will chair: Getting Deals Done with Innovative Procurement Models.
United Utilities is starting to put the building blocks in place enabling it to carry out the direct procurement of large scale capital investment projects worth between £100 million to £500 million whole life cost.
An Expert Focus article on Waterbriefing explores whether the tide of investor appeal will rise or fall as the water industry takes on direct procurement.
Ofwat is already in the process of considering the options for market design of direct procurement for customers, according to the minutes of its latest Board meeting published this week.
Attendees at next month’s National Civils Show, Floodex, National Drainage Show and Waterways Management on 26th and 27th November are set to benefit from an expert speaker line-up and the opportunity to visit a wide range of exhibitors all co-located in one place at Excel, London, one of the UK’s leading international exhibition and convention centres.
Tackling leakage is one of the fastest and most cost-effective ways for utilities to bolster water security, writes Ben Crabtree, Product Line Director, Ovarro, revealing how the potential of smart technologies is being demonstrated around the world.
UK-headquartered South Staffordshire Plc, the integrated services group operating within the UK critical infrastructure and essential services markets, has received a prestigious Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Award for global health and safety excellence.
Balfour Beatty, the UK’s largest construction and infrastructure provider, has delivered exceptional environmental results on the Thames Estuary Asset Management 2100 (TEAM2100) framework, one of the nation’s most ambitious flood defence initiatives.