Engineering, environment and design consultancy Sweco UK has won a three-year contract with Yorkshire Water to manage the installation of telemetry assets at 1,200 waste water sites.
Sweco’s Asset Management team will specify and install or upgrade monitoring devices across the water company’s sewer network. The devices will provide accurate data every 15 minutes, allowing Yorkshire Water to monitor and manage the performance of its assets.
Sweco’s team of engineers will manage the full delivery of the project from desktop and site surveys, to specifying the devices and managing installation contractors.
Jacqui Briggs, Portfolio Lead at Sweco, said:
“Accurately monitoring and reporting the performance of wastewater assets will provide Yorkshire Water with vital intelligence as it continues to push on with its investment programme. We have worked with the utility provider for more than twelve years and welcome this opportunity to continue to assist them in meeting the needs of their customers while improving their infrastructure and data capture and analytics capabilities.”
Sweco is currently contracted on Asset Management Period (AMP6) Frameworks with seven of the twelve UK water and sewerage companies, providing services across the full asset lifecycle.
With 14,500 employees in Europe, Sweco carries out projects in 70 countries annually throughout the world. The company is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.with sales of approximately SEK 16.9 billion (EUR 1.8 billion).
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