AtkinsRéalis has been appointed by Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water as one of four new Engineering Consultancy Services (ECS) partners, to support the delivery of the water company’s largest ever investment in environmental enhancement and protecting the water supply for its three million customers.
Work to date by Scottish Water on reducing carbon emissions has seen a carbon reduction of around 25% from the water company’s 2021 baseline.
New data from the Linewatch 2023 Infringement Report reveals that the utilities industry and their contractors were the second biggest risk to UK pipelines last year - utility companies were responsible for 15% of all infringements recorded.
A £6.5 million Scottish Water project to improve the quality and resilience of supply for thousands of customers has been completed; a new Olympic swimming pool sized treated water storage tank near Patna in East Ayrshire is now supplying 6,500 customers after undergoing final testing.
Uisce Éireann, working in partnership with Cork County Council, will shortly commence works to construct a new wastewater pumping station in North Midleton.
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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.
United Utilities has announced a new partnership with seven leading engineering and infrastructure businesses who will help deliver the largest investment in water and wastewater infrastructure in the North West in more than a century, if the company’s ambitious business plan is approved.
Falco has been awarded a place on Lot 2 of Thames Water’s Runaway 1 framework to provide civils and maintenance of non-infrastructure assets.
NI Water has announced the recent completion of 2 projects totalling approximately £12 million, which involved the construction of a new £8 million clarification process and a £4 million carbon addition project at Derg Water Treatment Works (WTW), County Tyrone.
Northumbrian Water has completed its AMP8 framework procurement with the appointment of 33 new construction and engineering partners to help deliver its £3.6 billion AMP8 capital investment programme.