Water and Effluent Treatment Magazine
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12 ALLIANCES 2016 MWH and Balfour Beatty make up the Advance joint venture working on United Utilities' (UU) AMP6 capital delivery programme. The JV is one of four capital delivery partners appointed to develop and deliver clean and wastewater, infrastruc- ture and non-infrastructure solutions. Advance along with the four delivery partners (MMB, C2V+, LiMA) have already started working on a transition investment programme in preparation for the start of AMP6. The construction delivery partners will help with the design and build of major construction projects. The multidisciplinary activities being carried out as part of the framework include design, project management, construction, testing, commissioning and mainte- nance which will ensure the delivery of clean and wastewater. The Construction Delivery Agility Alliance is a new joint venture formed by J Murphy & Sons and Morrison Utility Services and supported by Mott MacDonald. The organisation is one of two consortia working on Thames Water's £1bn infrastructure alliance. The deal, worth an estimated value of £500M, Partner framework will vary in each year of the AMP period and may range between £120M and £370M annually. It is hoped that the programme will allow the delivery partners to build a runs for five years with a potential ten-year extension into the AMP7 and AMP8 regulatory periods. As part of the infrastruc- ture alliance, Agility is helping to deliver essential, planned and reactive operational water networks support such as repair, maintenance and all associated activities that will drive down leakage and reduce interrup- tions to supply for customers across the Thames Water region. KCD is the other infrastructure alliance partner (see p27). Agility and KCD is working alongside Thames Water and the other partners in eight2O, to deliver the AMP6 programme and beyond. long-term relationship with United Utilities, with potential to extend the existing agreement to 2026. Over this extended period the work is estimated to be worth around £750M to each framework partner. Thames Water managing director of wholesale water, Bob Collington, said: "We strongly believe these two alliances will create aligned goals and objectives throughout the supply chain, standing us in the best possible position to deliver our customer and stake- holder promises." Matthew Behan, Murphy chief executive officer, said he was looking forward to partnering with Thames Water "to innovatively address the challenges that lie ahead" and help achieve sustainable efficiency, performance and customer service. Charles Morrison, chief executive at Morrison US, added that the make-up of the Agility joint venture brings the capacity, capabil- ity and innovation required to enable Thames Water to achieve the step changes in efficiency and performance that it has targeted for AMP6. PARTNERS Balfour Beatty / MWH CUSTOMER United Utilities CONTRACT Delivering AMP6 TERM Six years, and five years PARTNERS J Murphy; Morrison US CUSTOMER Thames Water CONTRACT Capital delivery as part of Infrastructure Alliance TERM Five years, possible ten-year extension Advance CMDP ALLIANCES 2016 Advance makes headway at UU Agility joins infrastructure alliance Balfour Beatty and MWH make up Advance Agility will help drive down leakage