Delivery Partner of the Year Award
Over the next few years utilities will spearhead 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 critical utility infrastructure and assets.
Delivery Partner of the Year Award
Over the next few years utilities will spearhead 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 critical utility infrastructure and assets.
Affinity Water and OCU Group
OCU Group were awarded a place on the Affinity Water Special Projects Framework, a landmark achievement for OCU’s water sector business, marking our first framework appointment of this scale for large reinforced concrete water-retaining structures.
As delivery partner, OCU has successfully designed and built two 20-megalitre structures pioneering the use of innovative offsite modular construction methods not previously used by Affinity Water’s contractors. Precast panels were manufactured off-site and delivered “just in time”, drawing inspiration from the automotive industry’s lean supply chain model to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and accelerate delivery.
Caledonia Water Alliance
Caledonia Water Alliance (CWA) stands out as an exemplary Alliance Partner due to its integrated approach to delivering water and wastewater infrastructure for Scottish Water (SW). CWA excels in safety, quality, efficiency, and sustainability, driven by a strong behavioural charter and collaborative culture.
Over the past year, CWA has led major programmes including Improving Urban Waters, implemented innovative digital and carbon reduction strategies, and achieved industry-leading engagement scores. Their commitment to community, customer satisfaction, and social value, alongside successful delivery of high-value projects, demonstrates why CWA is a sector leader in partnership, performance, and positive impact.
Clancy
Utilities are under pressure to deliver. Amid tight regulatory settlements, environmental pressures and strained supply chains, they need partners that they can rely on.
Clancy’s direct employment model and family-run ethos are increasingly rare in the industry. Our independent outlook ensures we invest in the things that matter to us and our clients: a safe and skilled team; innovative ways of working; protecting our environment; and giving back to the communities that we work in.
This is not just the ‘right’ thing to do, it drives brilliant results – working collaboratively with our clients to deliver as a long-term infrastructure.
Flow Automated Intelligence in partnership with Tata Consultancy Services for SPEN
As part of their digitalisation roadmap Scottish Power Energy Networks (SPEN) needed to digitise 450,000 critical land-rights records locked in paper archives across eight sites in Wales and Scotland, they turned to Flow AI and TCS.
By uniting Flow AI’s end-to-end capture workflows, mid-term Hub storage, and Asset Tracker chain-of-custody with TCS’s 160-strong offshore indexing team and Geographic Information System (GIS) vectorisation expertise, we transformed SPEN’s document puzzle into a seamless, digital solution. At Flow AI, we harness the power of partnership to guide utilities through fast, scalable digital transformation.
Lanes Group
Lanes Group has won major contracts in 2024/25 that cement its position as the leading wastewater network repair and maintenance partner in the water industry. It is consistently demonstrating its ability to deliver value and solutions that meet the urgent and future needs of clients and customers. For example, working in partnership with Southern Water, Lanes Group has created a digital management system that provides unrivalled real-time performance awareness and control, plus an AI-enabled predictive automated work scheduling tool. The solution brings together multiple industry firsts that are already having a major positive impact.
Stantec
Stantec has proven itself as the strategic partner of choice for the UK water sector—helping utilities navigate complex challenges with confidence, innovation, and measurable impact. From long-term investment planning and regulatory strategy to nature-based design and digital transformation, our integrated approach delivers outcomes that benefit clients, communities, and the environment. Over the past year, we’ve supported major programmes that improve resilience, reduce carbon, and unlock value—reinforcing our role as a trusted advisor and delivery partner across the sector.
United Infrastructure and National Gas
In collaboration with National Gas, United Infrastructure (UI) played a central role in managing the construction work on National Gas’ largest single feeder outage to date. Leveraging engineer-led expertise across the full asset lifecycle, from maintenance and refurbishment to design and construction, UI delivered a complex, technically demanding project safely and efficiently across the UK. The Feeder 5 project required innovative problem-solving, meticulous planning, and close partnership with National Gas and subcontractors to overcome significant challenges, ensuring the continued reliability and safety of the National Transmission System (NTS) while supporting the transition toward a low-carbon gas network.
