The BNM Alliance, Barhale’s newly-formed joint venture with North Midland Construction Plc, has been awarded a £62 million contract by Severn Trent Water to deliver three tunneling projects and one pipeline project on the Elan Valley Aqueduct.
The win follows the recent signing of the AMP 6 Infrastructure Contract Extension. The project which will be delivered by the alliance will see the purchase of a new Earth Pressure Balanced tunnel boring machine (TBM) supplied by Herrenknecht, to deal with rock strengths up to 190mpa and 10bar of external water pressure.
The contract forms part of Severn Trent’s overall Strategic Resilience Plan to secure Birmingham’s water supply for the next century which was approved by the regulator, Ofwat, in the Final Determination published last December.
Severn Trent’s Strategic Grid Team, working closely with feasibility consultant Atkins Arup, tendered the four projects in record-breaking time to ensure that the ODI obligation date can be met for the first project of March 2017.
The team will now to co-locate at Barhale’s Walsall office, in order to achieve the start on-site date of October and take delivery of the new TBM early in 2016.
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