Sellafield award for Babcock, Balfour Beatty JV
4 Aug 2011
London – A Babcock and Balfour Beatty JV, SMF Delivery Team, has been awarded a contract by Sellafield Limited for the early contractor engagement phase of the silos maintenance facility (SMF) at the Sellafield Site in west Cumbria, UK.
The SMF is to support the operations and maintenance of machinery which will be used to retrieve wastes from various facilities at Sellafield. The successful delivery of SMF is therefore a vital enabler for the hazard reduction programme at Sellafield. The scheme has a total value of around £150 million.
Phase one, starting now will involve the SMF Delivery Team in the design process, in an integrated team led by Sellafield Ltd, to deliver the concept and preliminary design.
This will be followed by phases two and three in which, working closely together, the SMF Delivery Team and Sellafield Ltd will complete the detailed design, procurement, construction and commissioning with completion currently scheduled for mid 2017.
The SMF Delivery Team is selected from one of the largest SQEP (suitably qualified and experience personnel) nuclear resource pools in the UK with unrivalled experience in delivering large complex nuclear projects and a 50 year track record in designing nuclear facilities.
Both JV partners have cultures of continuous improvement and opportunity for reach-back to their respective wider organisations, and both have robust and highly developed safety cultures and quality procedures, and a ‘right first time’ approach.
The SMF Delivery Team, Sellafield Ltd and supply chain personnel will work together as an integrated team, delivering the SMF project on-time and within budget, and in full compliance with all safety and quality standards.
“We have already identified an initial eleven areas with potential for programme acceleration. Our combined knowledge of working at Sellafield, and our project management, engineering and construction skills, technical expertise, and in-house capability will enable us to deliver the full scope of the SMF project safely and effectively,” said said Babcock MD, nuclear, Roger Hardy.
