Mott MacDonald has been appointed to provide a major supporting role to the Agility Alliance joint venture (JV) between J. Murphy & Sons Limited and Morrison Utility Services chosen by Thames Water to work on its new £1 billion infrastructure alliance contract.

The JV will deliver essential, planned and reactive operational water networks support, as well as respond to the requirements of developers across the Thames Water region. This will include repair, maintenance and all associated activities that will drive down leakage and reduce interruptions to supply for customers.

David Thomas, manager of Mott MacDonald’s water business, said:

“The Agility Alliance was selected not only for having the right capacity and capability to deliver the services, but equally for demonstrating the cultures and behaviours that align with Thames Water’s vision and values.”

“Mott MacDonald played a significant part in interpreting and communicating Thames Water’s regulatory position, coming up with practical solutions to improve efficiencies, and had a prominent role in supporting Agility in the preparation of the submission documents,” David added.

The new contract will begin in April 2015 and run for a period of five years, with a potential 10 year extension into the AMP7 and AMP8 regulatory periods.

Mott Macdonald’s 2000-strong water consultancy operates across all sectors of the water industry.

Recent water sector projects in the UK include River axe flood risk modelling to investigate flood risk to critical infrastructure and propose solutions to improve resilience, ,engineering consultant for Southern Water’s  15 year, £300M Cleaner seas for Sussex environmental scheme and the design and supervision of construction of a 60km long, 27Ml/day capacity water supply system for Anglian Water’s Covenham to Boston transfer pipeline.

Overseas projects include the role of prime consultant and designer on the US$200M project that will protect Lake Erie in the US by preventing combined sewer overflows and delivering India’s largest ever water transmission and treatment system in Mumbai, together with designing wastewater collection and treatment for the 75% of the population (9.2M people) currently unconnected.