Three JVs chase £5.7bn Thames Water reservoir job
Balfour Beatty, Bouygues and Webuild lead rival joint ventures shortlisted to build the £5.7bn White Horse Reservoir near Abingdon.
Who has won what across the water companies' AMP8 programmes, award by award, and what each framework means for commercial, delivery and engineering roles.
Balfour Beatty, Bouygues and Webuild lead rival joint ventures shortlisted to build the £5.7bn White Horse Reservoir near Abingdon.
Costain has been appointed to a £150m wastewater upgrade programme for Thames Water, one of the clearest signs yet that the industry's five-year AMP8 investment cycle is converting into site-level contracts. It is worth tracking closely if you work in water or want to move into it.
Kier has landed its biggest wastewater job yet on Thames Water's AMP8 programme. It is a useful signal for anyone weighing a move into water and utilities.
Anglian Water has awarded Barhale a £14.6m contract to build a wastewater pipeline enabling 6,200 new homes at Alconbury Weald, Cambridgeshire.
Northern Ireland Water has begun procurement for a new civils, pipelaying and M&E framework worth up to £10.5bn over 12 years. For engineers and QSs across the water sector, this is the clearest signal yet of where the next decade of work sits.
Severn Trent has awarded Galliford Try a £110m contract to build a 23km pipeline protecting the River Mease, a sign of where the current wave of AMP8 environmental spending is actually landing.
Yorkshire Water has awarded an £80 million multi-supplier technical services framework to 15 engineering and consultancy firms to deliver its AMP8 programme. It is a four-year pipeline of named work, and a clear steer on who is hiring designers now.