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Wet NeWs WATER AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT NEWS News+ Little AMP6 work is filtering down the supply chain as water companies delay the start of projects. Is Ofwat to blame? P7 Onsite: Impact assessment Can better impact assessment deliver improved decision making? Is thinking holistically about impacts a sensible and positive approach? P10-11 Insight: Pumps Keeping Ennerdale Water levels balanced during dry spells has proved challenging but achievable. Find out how. P19-20 • • Industry supply chain complains of slow start to AMP6. Cyclicality Working Group to establish how smaller contractors have benefited from the money flow. way of thinking." Galliford Try operations director George Sloss said the strategic moves" towards greater customer focus, totex and new costing models are taking time "and have undoubt- edly been major factors affect- ing the workflow". Ofwat insists it "took steps" to ensure the water companies were able to carry out their investment programmes "in a timely manner". It said: "Totex and outcomes have been part of giving compa- nies greater ownership and flexibility to deliver what cus- tomers want, over the long term. That approach has been welcomed across the sector, but now companies need to step up and deliver". Ofwat allowed £350M of investment to be brought for- ward into the final year of AMP5. The Cyclicality Working C ontractors are complain- ing of a slow start to AMP6, blaming measures imposed on the water compa- nies by Ofwat for delays in pro- jects starting up. In its price review covering 2015-20, the regulator called on the water companies to place greater focus on their customers. It also introduced a Outcome Delivery Incentives (ODIs), as well as a totex approach towards capital investment schemes. According to Andy Flower- day, managing director of Barh- ale, just "one of these was enough to wrong foot any business". Flowerday said: "[Totex has] been difficult and hugely influ- ential on your decision-making, capital delivery and expendi- ture. On top of that come ODIs and another different Regulator blamed for sluggish start to AMP6 Water industry 'Oscars' open for entries NOvember 2015 Volume 21 • Issue 11 IPS Flow Systems Tel: 0191 521 3111 www.ipsflowsystems.com Pressfit Fittings in Carbon Steel, Stainless Steel and Copper-Bronze now available from IPS. New products, same first class service. Contact us for further details. Doosan Enpure strengthens food waste AD T he Water Industry Achievement Awards are back, which means it is time to showcase your innovative thinking and get those entries in − the closing date is January 15, 2016. Organised by WET News and WWT, the awards celebrate and reward forward thinking and best practice in the water industry. Details of the awards are available online at www. wwtonline.co.uk/awards. The winners will be announced at a glittering extravaganza at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole on May 17, 2016. Sponsoring categories this year are NM Group, sponsoring Most Innovative New Technol- ogy; the CPSA, sponsoring Sus- tainable Drainage & Flood Man- agement Initiative; Asset International, sponsoring Car- bon Reduction Initiative; TES and Saint-Gobain PAM, co- sponsoring People Initiative; Selwood, sponsoring Health & Safety Initiative; and Teekay Couplings, co-sponsoring Engi- neer of the Year. DON'T miss this great opportunity – enter now. Group, which was created to help smooth the transition between AMP5 and 6, is keen to establish how much of that was spent during the transition period and whether smaller contractors have benefited from the money flow through the supply chain. The group's chair, Richard Coackley, said: "Some water companies have been really well organised and some have been less so. "I can't say that everything has been fantastic for every- body – I know it hasn't." Coackley continued: "Some things have got to be ironed out such as how contractors flow that money through to small sub-contractors. "That's where I want to try to understand what the situa- tion is." See News analysis, p7 D oosan Enpure has bought the intellectual property rights and know-how for the Ros Roca waste treatment processes relating to food waste anaerobic digestion from the administra- tors of Imtech Water, Waste & Energy (WWE). The move strengthens Doosan's sludge capability to offer EPC contracting and consultancy services for food waste anaerobic digestion developments both in the UK and overseas. The acquisition includes "some major refer- ences" for projects across Europe and Asia. Avtar Jirh, managing director at Doosan Enpure, said: "We have been looking to expand our services and competitiveness for our clients to include food waste digestion generating renewable energy, and therefore we are delighted to have secured the Ros Roca capability, which enhances our technology portfolio and offering to the market globally." Imtech WWE went into administration in September following the collapse of Dutch group Royal Imtech. "[Intelligent] pigs are just one solution but there are also robots..." Bart Bergmans, Evides Waterbedrijf, p9 "There is no doubt that using valuation to improve decision making is a significant challenge..." Dr Bruce Horton, MWH, p10-11 "Some water companies have been really well organised and some have been less so. I can't say everything has been fantastic for everybody – I know it hasn't" Richard Coackley, Cyclicality Working Group

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