Water services, design contract awarded to Grontmij in UK
LONDON, Aug. 10, 2010 -- Leading European engineering consultancy, Grontmij has been appointed to the United Utilities AMP5 Professional Engineering Consultancy Services (PECS) Framework.
The five year agreement will see Grontmij utilising its extensive range of water services, offering feasibility and design across networks and treatment facilities, including water and wastewater network modelling and analysis, as well as asset management.
Grontmij was appointed as a result of the consultancy's consistent high performance over the last three years throughout the AMP4 PECS Framework, coupled with a new tender that was technically impressive and commercially attractive.
John Hilson, operations director for Grontmij, said: "We have worked closely with United Utilities over the last few years and endeavoured to constantly offer increasingly high levels of service. The appointment is testament to Grontmij's leading skills in the water industry, our innovative techniques and our ability to work with United Utilities to create more efficient processes.
"Add to this our breadth and depth of experience, including over 20 years working with the UK's regulated water companies, means we have the knowledge and expertise to deliver the low cost, high quality, sustainable solutions required by United Utilities."
Lorraine Morton, Category Manager at United Utilities, said: "United Utilities is dedicated to delivering cost effective, efficient, high quality services for our customers, and we are looking forward to working with Grontmij to implement initiatives and processes."
Grontmij has recently worked with United Utilities to install the SHARON (Stable High Activity Ammonia Removal Over Nitrate) process at the Mersey Valley processing centre, providing a more efficient system for the treatment of ammonia in sewage management.
Developed by Grontmij over 15 years ago, the SHARON process has been installed in active plants across the United Kingdom, Sweden, Netherlands, USA and Switzerland. The system aims to provide a more energy efficient way of breaking down the ammonia present in liquors from sludge treatment plants, which in turn minimises pollution in watercourses and helps ensure compliance with environmental regulations. The United Utilities Mersey Valley SHARON plant near Liverpool treats 1,650kg of ammonia per day.
The AMP5 PECS Framework will primarily be serviced from Grontmij's Warrington office, with support from Leeds and the wider business.
Grontmij is a leading provider of water consultancy services including asset management, carbon footprinting, procurement advice and PFI/PPP technical advice to a range of professional clients. A growing area of the business is water environment, with services such as flood risk assessment, hydrology, hydrogeology, coastal engineering and environmental impact assessment. Grontmij also offers services relating to climate and energy, which involves advising on climate change and renewable energies.
About Grontmij
Grontmij is a leading sustainable design and management consultancy active in the growth markets of water, energy, transportation and sustainable planning and design. At the core of our business is the principle of sustainability by design which is a leading value proposition for our customers. Grontmij is the fourth largest design and management consultancy in Europe with over 150 offices across Europe and a further 20 offices globally. We employ 10,000 professionals around the world.
Our value chain of services stretches from major renewable water and energy infrastructure through designing efficient and environmentally-sensitive mobility and transportation networks to shaping our urban and green living spaces.
Whilst we are approaching our 100th anniversary, and benefit from the experience nearly a century provides, we prefer to look to the future to enhance the world we live in. By applying sustainability considerations to all our design, consultancy and management services right across the value chain, our highly-skilled, expert people are able to create lasting solutions that plan for, connect and respect the future.
Grontmij recently acquired Ginger, one of France's leading engineering groups in the environmental planning sector. It possesses a broad portfolio of skills necessary for life-cycle asset management, expertise studies and engineering, allowing Grontmij to continue to expand into new markets and deliver a mutli-disciplinary approach.
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