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WET NEWS WATER AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT NEWS News+ Early involvement in the asset investment planning cycle and working closely with consultants and supply chain partners was fundamen- tal in delivering the upgrade of the inlet works to Deephams STW, p6 Onsite: The Milbrook challenge We look at the complex challenges that had to be overcome during the upgrade of Southern Water's Milbrook treatment works, p11-13 Insight: Filtration & screenings Why the industry is screaming for screenings, as we discover that screening and grit removal processes are often left to their own devices, p19-20 "Encouraging employees to lead a healthy lifestyle can have numerous bene‡ ts..." Adam Gosnold, Morrison US, p9 "Restoring con- sistency will take time and it has our full focus" Steve Marshall, Balfour Beatty, p3 As Galliford Try reveals prices are coming under pressure from competition for AMP6 frameworks, others say that is to be expected as AMP4/5 frameworks end. approach to pricing and bid- ding for water business that we believe will stand us and our S trong competition from new entrants for work on the water companies' AMP6 programmes is 'leading to signi• cant pressure on pric- es', Galliford Try has revealed in its annual report. Galliford Try's infrastruc- ture order book amounts to £920M, £349M of which is in the water sector. The group said its joint ven- ture with AECOM Design Build will continue working with Yorkshire Water in the 2015-20 regulatory cycle. The renewed contract is expected to worth at least £110M to Galliford Try over that period, similar to that in AMP5. A spokesman for the group said "The competition for•AMP6 work•has been • ercer than ever with the ongoing market conditions putting an unprecedented focus on price. We've maintained a disciplined The clock is ticking for WIA awards entries T here is just six weeks le– in which to enter the Water In- dustry Achievement Awards 2015 – the closing date is Decem- ber 12. There are plenty of categories to choose from covering water resource management; data man- agement; partnerships; training and staš retention; health and safety; individual successes; and customer service. Entering could not be simpler. Just visit www.wwtonline.co.uk/ awards and complete the entry form for one or more categories. Remember, the judges want to see entries from companies who are thinking beyond their regulatory obligations. The winners of the awards, which are Organised by WET News and sister journal Water & Wastewater Treatment, will be announced at a gala dinner and awards ceremony at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole on April 21, 2015. AMP6 competition puts pressure on prices what we expected. "They're prestige • ve- or ten-year contracts and we'd expect there to be competition around each of those contracts on both quality and price." Duncan Wildgoose, busi- ness development manager at Imtech Water, Waste and Energy, said: "My view on the newcomers is that is not the reality, there has been a com- ing again for some companies who in AMP4/5 had not been so successful". He highlights Skanska and VolkerStevin as examples. Skanska has gained Thames Water and Dwr Cymru Welsh Water for AMP6 and has also retained Anglian Water, its only water business in AMP4/5. VolkerStevin had no AMP4/5 frameworks but is on United Utilities' AMP6 programme through its C2V+ partnership with CH2M Hill. NEED TO KNOW The capital spend for AMP6 is expected to be more than £20B over the ‡ ve years Frameworks that were awarded for AMP4/5 are coming to an end, so companies that missed out for those are back in the frame for AMP6 Many companies are setting up collaborations with di• erent partners to meet the di• erent challenges that AMP6 and future AMP cycles will bring AMP6 is expected to see new water and sewage treatment works, water distribution pipes and sewers being built, as well as many existing assets upgraded or refurbished Workload visibility the next challenge clients in good stead through- out the next AMP. "We were delighted to be awarded a place on Southern Water's AMP6 framework, and also look forward to continu- ing our partnership with York- shire Water." Graham Dickinson, market- ing director at MWH, said the group was "not entirely sure about new entrants", although there's been quite a lot of new partnerships. "You've got simi- lar kind of organisations involved but maybe setting up diš erent JVs and diš erent part- nerships which happens every AMP anyway." He said: "From our point of view, I think we expected it to be competitive both on quality and price in this whole AMP6 procurement round, and that's exactly what it's been like. I don't think it's been any surprise that it's been competitive, but that's exactly NOVEMBER 2014 Volume 20 • Issue 11 IPS Flow Systems Tel: 0191 521 3111 www.ipsflowsystems.com The UK's leading supplier of plastic piping systems PVCu PVCc ABS HDPE PP PVDF Ex-stock, overnight delivery throughout the UK I mproving visibility of work- load is the next challenge for the whole of the water indus- try, according to Richard Coack- ley, chair of the cross-sector Cy- clicality Working Group, which is working to eliminate the nega- tive impact of the regulated AMP cycle. Speaking recently at the SBWWI annual lunch, Coackley told guests that the £440M of transition investment that had been identi• ed to help mitigate the cyclical impact in the supply chain and reduce costs to cus- tomers was "a • rst". He said: "This • gure is so close to half the full cyclical impact of £1B that we might consider 'job done'. "However, it is now down to the whole industry to make known the release of the invest- ment and in what speci• c area of delivery needed. This is our next challenge – how we improve visibility of workload." And Coackley warned: "As the physiotherapists remind us 'if we don't use it... we'll lose it'." ■ Richard Coackley is speaking at our Water Industry Supplier Conference In Birmingham on November 26. www.wwt-supplychain.net

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