United Utilities has launched an early market engagement exercise for 3D printing services.
A trailblazing project which receives funding from Ofwat’s £200 million Innovation Fund to demonstrate the benefits of 3D concrete printed components for the water sector has taken a huge step forward - CSO chambers can be produced within a matter of hours rather than days.
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Scottish Water has teamed up with United Utilities to work with tech innovators ChangeMaker3D and Manchester Metropolitan University on a trail-blazing project to produce 3D concrete printed infrastructure components.
In a first in the UK water industry, United Utilities and tech innovators ChangeMaker 3D have successfully demonstrated the use of 3D concrete printed components – with significant carbon, cost and labour savings.
The water sector could soon be the first in the UK able to print made-to-measure objects out of sustainable concrete on site.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia in Canada have built inexpensive and tiny devices using a 3D printer to inspect water quality in the distribution system which could revolutionize the water industry.
In a first for a UK water company, Anglian Water is collaborating with the Sheffield Water Centre in a trial to explore the future of 3D printing technology.
Albion Water, the first NAV (New Appointment & Variation) to have been established in1999 and now under the ownership of SDS Water Group, has appointed Andy Holland as its new Director of Business Development.
UK water companies are invited to join an upcoming webinar which will explore how the sector can take indirect potable reuse (IPR) from concept to full-scale operational reality.
James Sumsion, CEO of predictive water intelligence specialists Kohtari, says the water sector needs to take a giant leap forward, so that it can anticipate and act upon water quality issues - rather than merely react.
Ray Moulds, Sales Director at Flood Control International, takes a look at how automated sliding floodgates are supporting secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites.