Dutch group nets UK water contracts worth over Euro175m
15 Mar 2010
Gouda, The Netherlands - Imtech has gained orders worth over Euro175 million to supply engineering and technology to UK water utilities. The Dutch group is to to maintain and improve water and wastewater assets for Welsh Water, under the next AMP phase, and support a Thames Water upgrade to the Crossness and Beckton Sewage Treatment Works.
Welsh Water has confirmed that the Imtech framework contract will continue into AMP 5 – the next five-year Asset Management Plan period (2010-15) for maintaining and upgrading all of the water and wastewater assets in Wales. The Euro100-million contract – Imtech’s third successive AMP deal with the Welsh utility – includes making these assets better protected against surface water flooding.
Imtech’s scope of work will encompass sub-programmes of work for process engineering using multidisciplinary technology solutions and major improvements at sewage treatment works Five Fords, Cardiff, Afan and Nash. It is also to introduce energy efficiency measures to drive continuous improvements in asset performance, carbon reduction and HSE management.
Thames Water, meanwhile, has appointed Tamesis - a joint venture between Imtech and Laing O’Rourke - as the contractor for a Euro155-million upgrade to the Crossness Sewage Treatment Works on the south bank of the Thames as well as a Euro150 million upgrade to the Beckton Sewage Treatment Works on the north of the river.
The improvements will enable the sites to treat 44% (Crossness) and 60% (Beckton) more sewage than they do now, significantly reducing the amount of storm sewage that overflows into the River Thames during heavy rainfall when the site becomes overloaded. This marks a fundamental step in improving the quality of London’s iconic river.
The projects include the installation of wind turbines - the first ever to power British sewage works - that will help generate up to half the energy needed to power the sites. The upgrade will also see new odour controlled treatment processes and environmental enhancements. Both upgrades will be finished at the end of 2013.
The works at Crossness and Beckton are part of a Euro720-million programme to improve treatment standards and increase the volume of sewage treated London’s five major sewage treatment works - Crossness, Mogden, Beckton, Long Reach and Riverside. Imtech and Laing O’Rourke are offering multidisciplinary solutions involving civil, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and control-systems engineering and technology.
