Delivery Partner of the Year Award
Utilities are spearheading an unprecedented wave of infrastructure buildout. This award celebrates the contractors, engineering consultants and other supply chain partners involved in the design, build and maintenance of utility infrastructure and assets.
Delivery Partner of the Year Award
Utilities are spearheading an unprecedented wave of infrastructure buildout. This award celebrates the contractors, engineering consultants and other supply chain partners involved in the design, build and maintenance of utility infrastructure and assets.
Avove
As UK utilities prepare for the infrastructure investment programme of a generation, Avove is helping clients seize the opportunity to deliver infrastructure faster, safer and more sustainably. Supporting clients across the water, wastewater and power sectors, Avove combines design, engineering, delivery and commissioning expertise through an integrated Concept to Commissioning model. Four successive years of growth and investment in innovation, capability and sustainability have strengthened the company's ability to tackle complex delivery requirements. From accelerating resilience schemes and reducing carbon emissions to delivering cost savings and customer outcomes, Avove's integrated delivery model is transforming infrastructure across the UK and Ireland.
Clancy
Utilities companies need partners who solve challenges safely and efficiently without letting sustainability and community commitments slip. An impossible ask? Not for Clancy. Built on the strong foundations of family ownership and long-term investment in people and technology, Clancy delivered £71m in social value and our strongest carbon performance yet. Absolute emissions fell 12.9% despite business growth, and carbon intensity reduced 25% year-on-year and 51% over five years. Our directly-employed teams repaired 80,000 leaks, laid 91km of water mains and cleared 8,400+ blockages, while delivering complex capital projects that strengthen essential services, build resilience, protect the environment and support communities.
Deecon Consulting
Deecon Consulting has become a trusted strategic partner to Scotia Gas Networks (SGN), supporting a portfolio of initiatives across procurement, supplier management, digital transformation, logistics optimisation and GD3 delivery. As SGN delivers its five-year RIIO-GD3 business plan, Deecon provides the expertise needed to strengthen delivery confidence, improve performance and support long-term objectives. This has already helped SGN realise over £50m in efficiencies, secure access to 800+ skilled resources, and unlock wider benefits including £5.2m annual logistics savings and significant carbon reductions. The breadth of Deecon's remit demonstrates the lasting value and impact delivered across multiple strategic programmes.
JSM Group
When flood damage collapsed a cable bridge onto three live 132kV circuits in Stockport's Reddish Vale Country Park, one of them feeding Stepping Hill Hospital's A&E department, JSM Group delivered the emergency cable replacement without loss of supply. Across 2.7km of country park and residential streets, on the route Electricity North West designed, our teams drilled beneath the River Tame, removed 600 tonnes of contaminated fill, protected mature trees, and liaised with a local school throughout. We handed the school a new nature reserve on completion: engineering delivered under pressure, with lasting care for people and place.
Kier Group
Kier Water is helping seven active water clients turn AMP8 investment into delivery across treatment, networks, storm overflows, metering and water resilience. More than 140 live projects combine civil engineering with a growing national MEICA self-delivery capability. The strongest evidence is what clients are choosing to expand or reuse: Thames Water has asked Kier to replicate its Harpenden project-set-up approach at East Hyde; Severn Trent has adopted Kier-developed reporting tools for other delivery partners; Anglian Water’s IMRDS, IOS and metering programmes demonstrate delivery at scale; and South West Water has extended its Network Services Alliance to 2028.
Lanes Group
Over the past year, Lanes Group has demonstrated what it means to be a true strategic delivery partner to Thames Water and Southern Water. Supporting 21 million customers across London, the Thames Valley, Home Counties and the entire south coast, our teams have responded to the challenges of AMP8 by delivering major improvements in operational performance, customer experience and resilience. From expanding Thames Water’s industry-leading planned sewer maintenance programme by 40% to mobilising two major Southern Water contracts and improving response times by 65%, Lanes has combined innovation, exceptional delivery and cross-client collaboration to help raise standards for wastewater customers.
SDS Infrastructure
SDS Infrastructure is helping water companies address the UK’s twin challenges of water scarcity and flooding through intelligent, connected water management. As a delivery partner, SDS works with utilities, developers, businesses and communities to design, manufacture, install and operate infrastructure that captures, reuses and manages rainwater. Over the past 12 months, this has included delivery through the River Severn Partnership Advanced Wireless Innovation Region (RSPAWIR), demonstrating smart water reuse across agricultural, leisure and industrial sites. These projects support Severn Trent’s wider resilience objectives by demonstrating how decentralised water management can reduce demand on potable supplies while preventing downstream catchment flooding.
Stantec
Stantec is helping drive the transformation of the UK utilities sector, delivering innovative, sustainable solutions across water, wastewater and energy infrastructure. Working with every major UK water and sewerage company and leading energy network operators, the business is improving resilience, accelerating decarbonisation and enhancing environmental outcomes. Recent achievements include the UK’s largest integrated constructed wetland, the first Development Consent Order submission for a Strategic Resource Option, major grid reinforcement projects and pioneering water treatment innovations that save millions in costs. Through collaboration, digital innovation and nature-based solutions, Stantec is delivering measurable benefits for customers, communities, the environment and future generations.
WGM Engineering
WGM Engineering is helping UK utilities make customers’ money go further by rethinking how infrastructure is renewed. Our philosophy is simple: the most sustainable asset is often the one you already have. Through circular economy principles, off-site engineering and close collaboration with Scottish Water, WGM challenged the traditional “replace and dispose” model at Laighpark Wastewater Treatment Works. By combining the manufacture of new bridge scrapers with the remanufacture and modernisation of existing assets, WGM delivered significant reductions in cost, carbon and programme duration. The result is a scalable delivery model that improves affordability, resilience and sustainability across the water sector.