Skanska will be working on three major water schemes, all starting on 1st April 2015, providing solutions for the development and delivery of improvement programmes for Anglian Water, Thames Water and Welsh Water.
Skanska's commitment to contribute to a more sustainable world is one of its core values and the company is bringing its green expertise, and highly collaborative culture to help these clients supply clean and safe water for the communities in their areas.
The schemes all began with an Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) phase, enabling all of the project partners a sustained period of collaboration, working together on defining how solutions will be delivered, driving best use of innovation to achieve efficiency gains and reduce cost.
During the delivery phase contractors will draw on the sustainability experience of each of the partners, using BIM technology to bring whole-life costing and carbon foot-printing considerations to every project and programme.
Thomas Faulkner, managing director of Skanska's civil engineering business said:
“The increasing move towards collaboration will encourage even more innovation than has been seen in the past. There is huge potential in harnessing the great knowledge and ideas from across the water industry including all of our supply chain partners. Collaboration makes our industry stronger, more sustainable and fitter for the future.
“As we’re working with Anglian, Welsh Water and Thames, we’re able to share from our experience across all three in order to contribute to the successful delivery of these significant programmes. That’s real collaboration.”
The six contractors appointed to Anglian Water’s new Integrated Main Works Capital Alliance framework are: Skanska, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Grontmij, and MMB (a joint venture between Mott MacDonald and JN Bentley), and MWH.
Anglian’s @one Alliance will run over the AMP6 regulatory period from 2015 to 2020 - to maximise collaborative working and efficiency, the contracts could run for 15 years, with a review after each five-year AMP period. This is one of the longest collaborations in the industry.
The contract with Thames will run for five years with an option to extend for a further five. The three-way JV, known as SMB and also featuring MWH Treatment, will provide water asset solutions as part of Thames Water’s eight2O alliance.
The Welsh Water contracts will run for an initial five year period from 2015 to 2020 with an option to extend for a further five years. The new Capital Delivery Alliance members are; Skanska Construction UK Limited working with Hyder Consulting (UK) Limited, Mott Macdonald working with Bentley Limited, Morgan Sindall working with Arup.
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