Water and Effluent Treatment Magazine
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24 ALLIANCES 2017 Efficient Service Delivery, better known as ESD, is the alliance formed to provide non-infrastructure services to Scottish Water for the six-year regulatory period ending March 2021, with the option for a six-year extension. Ian Jones, managing director of Galliford Try's water business, said: "In the first 18 months the jv has bedded in well. This is the first time that that we've worked together as a trio, although Galliford Try has experience of co-operating with MWH from our business with Thames Water and with Black & Veatch from the Environment Agency's water and environment management framework." There has been a slow start to the current regulatory period but ESD reports "good programme visibility", and has already taken on around 100 projects including 13 works orders. Most of the work to date has concerned feasibility and outline designs. ESD is targeting £70M of turnover by the end of the current year two with a peak in anticipated in years three, four and five. A forthcoming project that ESD will work on is Scottish Water's proposed plan to combine two wastewater treatment works near Inverurie into one. At present, treatment works on the site are located on both sides of the Aberdeen to Inverness railway line near Inverurie. The new plans will gradually decommission the works located at the Port Elphinstone side of the tracks, with the works on the opposite side transformed to offer improved efficiency and capability – achieved with a smaller overall site footprint. As Alliances went to press, Aberdeenshire Council's Area Committee recommended full planning permission should be granted for the £15M project. PARTNERS Galliford Try, Black & Veatch, MWH Treatment CLIENT Scottish Water CONTRACT Provision of non-infrastructure services TERM Six years, possible six-year extension ESD ALLIANCES 2017 ESD notches up 100 projects The treatment works is located on both sides of the Aberdeen to Inverness railway line near Inverurie WaterAid/GMB Akash/Panos Registered charity numbers 288701 (England and Wales) and SC039479 (Scotland) www.wateraid.org Generic WIP Ad A5 landscape.indd 1 06/11/2013 11:41:31 We believe everyone, everywhere can have clean water and sanitation by 2030. See how your company can help. Email us at waterindustry@wateraid.org. 2030.