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Aiming high Hebrides later this spring. Cover- ing a total floor area of 870m 2 , the two-storey construction is made from 16 discrete units, with the majority weighing around 20 tonnes each. "Once it's onsite and assem- bled, people would never imagine it's offsite build," he says. "Look- ing in our modular plants, there's an awful lot of technology in there, a lot of equipment. It wouldn't really occur to most that you could fit all that into a water treatment works built on an offsite basis." The company has designed, built, installed and commissioned Whalsay Transportable Treatment Unit (TTU) was a Ross-shire project • With its latest modular water treatment plant having hit new heights in terms of scale and ambition, Ross-shire Engineering is now seeking to put its offsite modular build expertise into action throughout the UK By Robin Hackett R oss-shire Engineering (RSE) has spent the last 30 years developing its reputation north of the border, establishing an extensive track record of work with Scottish Water. Now, the com- pany is seeking to build on its profile further afield. RSE has been honing its exper- tise in modular offsite construc- tion for over a decade, handling an array of multi-million-pound projects for the national utility at its headquarters in the Highland village of Muir of Ord. With AMP7 around the corner, director Jamie MacGregor believes it is time to spread the word fur- ther throughout the UK. "The Scottish Highland way is to deliver a good project and then m o v e o n t o t h e n e x t o n e , " MacGregor says. "You don't read a lot about multi-million-pound awards that we get. We don't put it in the local press – we focus on delivery and client satisfaction – but I think part of our challenge now is to raise the profile of our products. "We've got a mature range of water treatment plants that are transportable. We're at the leading e d g e o f o f f - s i t e m o d u l a r construction." To demonstrate RSE's capabili- ties, MacGregor hosts a tour of its largest transportable plant to date: an £8.75 million project for Scot- tish Water that is due to be deliv- ered to Lochmaddy in the Outer over 30 modular nanofiltration water treatment units throughout Scotland so far, alongside multiple modular chemical dosing and UV plants, with all the construction and 90 per cent of the commis- sioning completed at its bespoke modular fabrication facility in Muir of Ord. "It's all within our own grasp, from the 3D design, the base fab- rication, the box steel for the car- casses right through to the clad- d i n g , t h e a s s e m b l y , t h e mechanical and electrical fit-out, the software, the process, the com- missioning," he says. "We do that all in-house so we're not relying on third parties. We've not got overlap that we can't control." The Lochmaddy plant will be fully tested at RSE HQ before being dismantled and transported by road and sea to North Uist, where it will replace the existing plant on the island. "The transportable plants are just that," MacGregor says. "We can make them here and install them all over the world." B I M a n d 3 D wa l k t h ro ugh design and optioneering minimise rework and revision prior to con- struction, and the operational 18 WET NEWS APRIL 2018 | wwtonline.co.uk INTERVIEW Inside Lochmaddy water treatment works, which is being built offsite

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