Infrastructure Delivery Award
Celebrating best-in-class performance and innovative approaches to delivering infrastructure projects for the benefit of customers and the environment.
Infrastructure Delivery Award
Celebrating best-in-class performance and innovative approaches to delivering infrastructure projects for the benefit of customers and the environment.
Affinity Water & OCU GROUP
AW’s construction of two new reservoirs in Luton and Hitchin supports water strategic transfers and reduces abstraction from sensitive chalk streams. By combining integrated planning, modular construction, and collaborative excellence, we have delivered faster, safer, and sustainable infrastructure, setting a benchmark for the UK water sector.
These reservoir schemes form part of our AW Connect 2040 Programme; an ambitious, long-term strategy designed to unlock unrestricted water movement across the Central region. Connect 2040 addresses the challenges of growing demand, reduced groundwater availability, and increasing reliance on shared imports, delivering critical infrastructure to balance supply and demand.
Avove & Severn Trent
The Strelley to Redhill Trunk Main Project delivered a 16.3-kilometre strategic water pipeline, enhancing the resilience and capacity of Severn Trent’s network to support up to 180,000 customers in North Nottinghamshire. This £32 million initiative exemplifies excellence in project management, technical innovation, environmental stewardship, and community engagement, setting new standards for efficiency, safety, and social value in infrastructure projects.
Project Objectives
• Enhance Water Supply Resilience: Provide an additional 25 million litres of water per day to the region, reducing reliance on boreholes and accommodating future demand.
• Implement Sustainable Solutions: Utilise innovative construction methods to minimise environmental impact
Clancy & Thames Water
Clancy and Thames Water successfully delivered an unprecedented £4m diversion of a 100-year-old, 30-inch high-pressure water main in Twickenham – a project deemed “undeliverable” by other contractors. Against a backdrop of extreme complexity, including proximity to gas mains, rail infrastructure and busy public spaces, the team deployed innovative technology new to the UK, the Electrolock system, alongside best-in-class stakeholder engagement and rigorous planning. The diversion was executed flawlessly within four hours, ahead of time and on budget, with zero service strikes and zero lost-time incidents, safeguarding water for over 100,000 people and enabling vital housing development.
Eastern Green Link 2
Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) is a £4bn+ subsea HVDC link that will connect Aberdeenshire and Yorkshire, transporting enough green energy to power two million homes. Delivered by SSEN Transmission and National Grid, EGL2 is driving net zero progress with digital-first delivery, sustainability and community engagement at its core. Construction began in 2024, with major milestones achieved ahead of schedule. The project has awarded £17m in local contracts, launched a £2m+ community benefit fund and has cut emissions using biofuels. EGL2 sets a new benchmark in infrastructure delivery, embracing innovation, collaboration and regional impact to transform the UK’s energy future.
M Group Water
M Group Water undertook the complex rehabilitation of the essential Millenium Main water supply in Lewisham utilising an innovative hybrid version of a VIP-WECO internal pipe sealing system. This rapid, compact solution avoided the significant disruption of traditional excavation-based methods, as well as providing the client with overall project savings of over £30m.
A collaborative project, M Group Water worked with the client and supply chain to fast-track crucial DWI approval within two months, agree costs, procure materials to meet programme deadlines, and install the Repair Seals within the tight programme timescales, as well as providing local community benefits.
Northumbrian Water Group and Esh Stantec
The Durham Transfers scheme delivered a futureproof wastewater solution for Northumbrian Water, meeting strict environmental targets while supporting regional growth. Over 6km of new pipework and a 120m gravity pipe bridge were constructed to transfer flows between treatment works, avoiding costly upgrades and reducing carbon. Innovative design, stakeholder collaboration—including with Network Rail—and efficient delivery ensured the project was completed ahead of deadline and within budget. The scheme benefits customers, the environment, and long-term asset strategy, showcasing best-in-class infrastructure delivery.
Northumbrian Water Group
Changing climate has seen continued unprecedented demand placed upon Hanningfield WTW in Essex which has recently repeatedly drawn the water levels in the adjacent Hanningfield reservoir to the record low levels not seen since the mid 90s. To secure future resilience of supplies Essex & Suffolk Water (ESW) has constructed, using a hybrid delivery approach blending internal and external expertise, a 19.6km, 900mm diameter pipeline to allow the equivalent of 20 Olympic swimming pools per day to be transferred between our two major reservoirs Abberton and Hanningfield securing resilience of supplies for generations to come in the Essex geography.
SGN
The £16m Birnam to Logierait High Pressure Pipeline Diversion has safeguarded a key part of Scotland’s gas network by replacing 11km of at-risk pipeline, first installed in 1965. The project included a new Pressure Regulating Installation, 12km of 250mm HDPE Intermediate Pressure main, 3.5km of 180mm HDPE Intermediate Pressure main and the repurposing of an existing diversion.
Delivered ahead of schedule and under budget, the scheme overcame complex engineering, environmental and stakeholder challenges. It demonstrates how diverting existing high-pressure pipelines with distribution systems can provide a safe, reliable and cost-effective alternative when conventional options are unfeasible.
