Imtech Awarded UK Wastewater Treatment Contracts

UK-based Welsh Water and Thames Water have awarded contracts worth €175m ($240m) to Imtech for upgrading their water and wastewater assets in the UK.

Imtech will work with Welsh Water for the next phase of a five-year asset management plan (2010-15) in a deal worth €100m ($137m) for maintaining and upgrading all of its water and wastewater assets in Wales.

Sewage treatment works will be taken up by Imtech at Five Fords, Cardiff, Afan and Nash, and will include improvements in surface water flooding, carbon reduction and health, safety and environment management.

Meanwhile, Tamesis received €155m ($212.9m) from Thames Water to upgrade the Crossness Sewage Treatment Works and a €150m ($206m) contract to upgrade the Beckton Sewage Treatment Works.

Upgrades will help treat 44% sewage at Crossness and 60% at Beckton, thereby reducing the storm sewage overflow into the river. Work will be completed by 2013.

The project will also include the installation of wind turbines, new odour controlled treatment processes and environmental enhancements.

The improvements works are part of the larger €720m ($989m) programme to improve London’s five major sewage treatment works: Crossness, Mogden, Beckton, Long Reach and Riverside.

Imtech is a European technical services provider and Tamesis is a joint venture between Imtech and Laing O’Rourke.