Water & Wastewater Treatment

ALLIANCES 2020 9 Anglian Water, Kier and Clancy Docwra form the Integrated Maintenance and Repair (IMR) Water alliance, which handles water network pressure management, finding and fixing leaks, lead replacement and repairing burst water mains. The alliance was founded in 2015 and, for AMP7, the alliance has been handed additional responsibility for leak detection as Anglian seeks to meet a 17 per cent reduction target by 2025. The contractors will jointly assume responsibility for the new contract, with Clancy Docwra carrying out leakage detection work across the western area of Anglian Water's network while Kier handles the eastern section. "We're challenging ourselves along with our clients to ensure we can drive real efficiency in the end-to- end process of managing water networks, and leakage detection is a core part of Integrated Maintenance and Repair (IMR) Water Recycling is made up from Anglian Water, Kier, Clancy Docwra, Claret Civil Engineering, Danaher & Walsh and Public Sewer Services and manages the contract for proactive and emergency sewer repairs. They also have packages of work for sewer and rising main repairs, manhole and chamber refurbishment and replacement, interceptor removal flooding mitigation and dealing with both public and transferred assets. As with its sister IMR alliance, which looks a'er the water network, IMR water recycling has adopted a 'best for task' philosophy. The model was revised in 2017 with a view to ensuring it provided a sustainable and equitable platform for all parties. The alliance model now reflects a position whereby it recognises that resource availability and stability is at its core, with each of the partners able to nominate individuals to fill that," Nigel Dyer, Kier Utilities' MD for water, told WWT. "Historically, that business was outsourced to another company, but that's been brought into the alliance so that Kier and Clancy Docwra can be accountable not only for fixing the leaks but also detecting them in the first place. "We're looking at a whole range of things. We're installing a substantial number of noise loggers, and we're looking at opportunities for how to use fibre technology to make sure leakage detection is more accurate. We're doing quite a lot of work with a number of organisations just to explore where the emerging technologies are coming from." Ronan Clancy, associate director at Clancy Docwra, said: "Bringing leakage detection firmly into the Anglian alliance will allow us to drive greater integration roles and vacancies, and a collective decision made about who is best for the task. The teams making up IMR consist of dedicated resources used to deliver the mixed basket of work activity across both reactive and planned environments. This provides the IMR with the flexibility of resource it needs to be able to proactively manoeuvre between short-term peaks of reactive work while balancing the whole efficiency and productiveness of its resources through the utilisation of a planned workbook. Anglian Water has also made use of pan-alliance working methodologies that with our maintenance and repair activity. "This will bring efficiencies in resource, as well as enabling an easier transfer of expertise across disciplines, ensuring we are attracting and retaining the best talent in the alliance overall. "It will also mean that with Anglian and Kier, we can drive greater innovation in the methods and tools at our disposal to tackle the critical challenge of leakage – improving quality, consistency of supply and affordability." allow the company to recognise where there is an opportunity to have a more joined-up and aligned workforce. An example would be the sharing of resources across IMR and IMDS. "Through these alliancing models, strong relationships have formed between us and our delivery partners," the company has said. "From chief executives to frontline operational staff, there is a unity and collaborative nature that has developed allowing all parties to take a longer- term view of resource requirements, security, stability and commitment required to deliver." CLIENT: Anglian Water PARTNERS: Clancy Docwra, Kier CONTRACT: Water network repair and maintenance TERM: Until 2030 CLIENT: Anglian Water PARTNERS: Clancy Docwra, Kier, Claret Civil Engineering, Danaher & Walsh, Public Sewer Services CONTRACT: Wastewater maintenance and repair TERM: Until 2030 ALLIANCES 2020: ANGLIAN WATER IMR Water takes on leak detection Ensuring sewers are in shape Integrated Maintenance and Repair (IMR) Water Recycling Integrated Maintenance and Repair (IMR) Water

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