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OCTOBER 2016 WET NEWS 3 B lack & Veatch has joined Thames Water's eight2O alliance by combining forces with Costain and Atkins (CABV), one of two design-build joint ventures. The company was welcomed on board the alliance in a special ceremony at Thames Water's Reading headquarters, attended by senior directors in the alliance, including Thames Water's new CEO Steve Robertson and Don Stevens from Black & Veatch. Robertson said: "It is a pleasure to welcome Black and Veatch on board. The company's expertise and capability will make a vital contribution to delivering the objectives of the eight2O alliance." The CABV joint venture is involved in every element – design, construction and commissioning – of the creation of new water and wastewater treatment and carriage assets for Thames Water. In addition, it is responsible for optimising the performance of new and existing assets. Black & Veatch will support these activities with real-time data analysis achieved using the company's ASSET360 tool. M ott MacDonald Bentley (MMB) has contracted Saxlund International to design and install a new sludge cake truck loading silo for Severn Trent Water's Coalport Sewage Treatment Works (STW) in Shropshire to improve e" ciency. The new raised storage and discharge silo is part of a programme of improvement works carried out by MMB under its AMP6 contract with Severn Trent Water. The project scope includes the construction of a raised 100m3 circular storage silo designed to allow Black & Veatch lands place in eight2O alliance Don Stevens, Black & Veatch executive managing director, Water – Europe, Middle East and India, said: "We have worked with Thames Water for more than 20 years. Today we welcome the opportunity to make a contribution to eight2O, among the most innovative delivery alliances to date." WET News is registered at Stationers' Hall. 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If you think that we have not met those standards and want to make a complaint, please contact the editor. If we are unable to resolve your complaint, or if you would like more information about IPSO or the Editors' Code, contact IPSO on 0300 123 2220 or visit www.ipso.co.uk Saxlund contracted for sludge cake silo scheme Fit a Pipe Lifter to your excavator and you can lay concrete pipes in around half the time with less cost and less hassle – but with greater safety. Safer. No operative needed on vehicle during off-loading or in trench during pipe laying. Cheaper. Fewer operatives plus greater productivity. Faster. Up to 50% faster off loading and installation time. Easier. Simple to use. No special equipment & minimal training required. Concrete Pipe Lifter off-loading Concrete Pipe Lifter installing 01530 240000 | 028 7964 2558 sales@fpmcann.co.uk fpmcann.co.uk/drainage For details visit: concretepipelifter.co.uk – Company joins Costain and Atkins joint venture for Thames Water design-build projects. Average circulation Jan-Dec 2015: 6,110 GMB slams Ofwat farcical proposal for "competition" in water natural monopoly @GMBPressO ce Ofwat says opening the residential retail market could lead to — nancial bene— ts of £3bn over 30 years. Public ownership of water would save households nearly ten times more than increasing competition in the market @We_OwnIt Scott Aitken, managing director, Black & Veatch Europe, added: "By providing expertise and tools for gathering and analysing data in real time we help support data and insight- driven service improvements that bene— t Thames Water's customers. "E" ciency, a™ ordability, customer service and competition are among UK water companies' greatest challenges. Data is the common thread in meeting these challenges: more data, better data and, most importantly, better data analysis to allow better informed decisions." CABV will execute asset creation and optimisation projects across Thames Water's region in London and the Thames Valley. Black & Veatch professionals' knowledge of de-watered sludge to be directly loaded into trucks below. The solution, which will handle 26.3m 3 per day. Thames Water's asset base – through participation in AMP3, 4 and 5 frameworks – will complement the joint venture's support for the other eight2O partners. Alongside Thames Water these include the Skanska, MWH and Balfour Beatty design-build joint venture, technology partner IBM and MWH as programme manager. Most of the initial investment has been targeted at schemes with the greatest impact on key customer outcomes, such as leakage reduction, ¢ ooding and energy e" ciency. The latter includes a large-scale combined heat and power (CHP) programme at wastewater treatment works. ASSET360 has already been trialled by other water companies to optimise the performance of CHP assets. "We have worked with Thames Water for more than 20 years. Today we welcome the opportunity to make a contribution to eight2O, among the most innovative delivery alliances to date" Don Stevens, Black & Veatch The silo designed to allow de-watered sludge to be directly loaded into trucks below Untrue. Defra event economics in water industry: max savings for the most optimistic scenario would be £6 pcy. @RichardAshley99 The real impact of #water retail competition may be in new services such as smart meters and dedicated apps. @ Ofwat @Daviddwr 'Water must learn from the energy market if competition in water is pursued' @WaterWatchdog

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