Warrington-based United Utilities (UU) has revealed the seven companies that will contribute to their £13.7 billion 2025-30 investment plan for the North West. The UK’s largest water company said that the spending plan, still pending Ofwat approval, would see the biggest investment in water and wastewater infrastructure in over a century.
After a ‘competitive tender process’, the utilities firm named the following engineering and infrastructure contractors: Jacobs, Kier Integrated Services, C2V, Costain, Murphy, MWH Treatment and Mott Macdonald Bentley, which are all from the UK, except the US-based Jacobs.
According to United Utilities, it will be their most ambitious programme yet, which will support 30,000 jobs, including a further 7,000 new jobs within UU, plus a wider supply chain that will boost local communities with skills and investment. It said that over £3 billion of major infrastructure improvements was earmarked across the region, including the upgrading of wastewater treatment facilities designed to reduce storm overflows and spillage, and to protect in excess of 311 miles of rivers and other waterways. UU’s investment includes base operating costs in addition to capital expenditure over the five-year period.
For its part, one of the contract winners Costain said it will work with United Utilities and its partners to create an integrated enterprise delivery organisation as part of the drive to upgrade UU’s complex infrastructure and non-infrastructure assets. Its services will include project management, construction, engineering and design services, as well as the coordination of construction activities to meet with regulatory compliance.
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