Engineering

Safe, sustainable, efficient, and assured engineering outcomes.

We develop and deliver outcome-focussed safe, sustainable, efficient and assured, engineering solutions for the water, wastewater and industrial sectors.

Our engineering and design team has a successful track record of service delivery across the asset lifecycle, from asset diagnostics and needs verification, feasibility and optioneering through to outline and detailed design, construction, commissioning, and operational support for infrastructure and non-infrastructure assets.

We support the following client drivers:

Environmental risk reduction
Sustainability, affordability, and social value
Regulatory compliance

We support tier 1 and tier 2 customers across the asset lifecycle, providing multidisciplinary engineering and design services, including:

Environmental, process and design safety
Process engineering
Civil engineering and design
Structural engineering and design
Mechanical engineering and design
Electrical engineering and design
Control and instrumentation engineering and design
Project engineering
Design management

Our proactive and reactive infrastructure management goes across your network, from water treatment work outlets to customer taps.

Embedding the key themes

Efficiency

Our teams are experienced in delivering engineering and design services across the asset lifecycle. They are outcome-focused and have the ability to look from left to right, and right to left, developing the optimum solutions and delivering value at each lifecycle phase.

Compliance

Our Head of Technical Assurance drives consistency in our output. Our systems of work and our approach to technical competency provide delivery assurance and ensure successful outcomes are realised right first time. Our technical assurance delivery framework delivers design solutions that can be built and operated safely, meet the client's requirements and achieve a high level of performance in operation.

Sustainability

Our lifecycle management process ensures that sustainable outcomes are measured, monitored, and realised at every step of the engineering and design process, from the front-end through to delivery.

Our value

Sustainable - We ensure sustainable outcomes are identified, planned, monitored, and realised at every step across the asset delivery lifecycle.

Efficient – Our Engineering and Design team works in close collaboration with our other Asset Management and Commercial service lines. This cross fertilisation of knowledge and the adoption of best practice ensures we deliver successful outcomes efficiently for our clients.

Assured – Our design lifecycle management approach ensures that our people are empowered with knowledge, systems, and processes for right-first-time service delivery.

Engineering process

How we can help

Safety

Conventional safety risk management: CDM principal designer and designer duties, Design risk reviews and assessments, H & S file
Process safety risk management: HAZOP, LOPA, DSEAR, ALM, HAZCON, FMEA and lightning protection assessments, CompEx surveys
Suitably qualified and experienced personnel (SQEP) incl: NEBOSH, IOSH, CSCS, EUSR ‘blue card’ water hygiene

Sustainability

Net Zero: Bioresources, green energy, BAT, carbon lifecycle management
Resource efficiency: DfMA, Waste minimisation
Nature Based Solutions: SuDS, Treatment wetlands, biodiversity net gain, natural flood management, natural capital, ecology and environmental monitoring services
Resilience: Flood risk alleviation; Water resources (Treatment, Optimisation, Leakage)
Pollution control: Municipal and Industrial wastewater treatment; CSO spills reduction; Bunding and containment

Efficiency

Optimum solution identification: Client and asset need verification, feasibility and optioneering assessments (6 capital outcomes), site surveys & investigations, asset Standards appraisal, BAT, supply chain intelligence, Totex cost intelligence
Systems thinking: Integrated catchment solutions, leakage and infiltration risk reduction, DWMP, WRMP, network modelling
Asset, site, and environmental surveys: Geotechnical, topographical, process flow and load, MEICA, sewer network, clean network, ecology and environmental monitoring
Design - Infrastructure and non-infrastructure: Process, civil & structural, mechanical & electrical and ICA engineering and design services across clean and wastewater infrastructure and non-infrastructure

Assurance

Delivery assurance: Design lifecycle management
Technical assurance: Technical assurance framework, Design verification, Technical appraisal, Regulatory and standards compliance
Regulatory compliance: WINEP, Industrial emissions directive, SuDS, Natural capital and Biodiversity net gain