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The appointment extends the current relationship with ARC as it continues to support the development and delivery of Scottish Water’s investment programmes and works across Scotland for the next three years, with the option to extend for a further three years.
ARC will provide a wide range of consultancy services to Scottish Water including asset performance management, integrated catchment management, network modelling and digital design enablement.
The joint venture partnership will play a vital role in supporting Scottish Water’s objective of ensuring all its customers can enjoy the benefits of continuous high quality drinking water through greater service resilience, and that wastewater is collected and safely returned to the environment.
In addition, ARC will be providing expert technical support for carbon reduction measures, a key step towards achieving the net zero commitments within Scottish Water’s strategy.
Paul Aitken, CEO for UK and Netherlands at RPS, said: “We’re delighted to be extending this agreement with Scottish Water. As the impacts of climate change increase the challenge in clean and wastewater delivery so the sector needs to be adapting, with pace, to new agile data-driven solutions.
“Alongside this the long-term maintenance of assets to support delivery will become of greater importance to ensure value for customers. ARC JV is committed to bringing its leading minds to support Scottish Water improve the communities and environment of Scotland.”
Richard Whale, Global Water Market Director for Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, added: “This a very welcome opportunity to continue our joint venture with RPS, and provide strategic consultancy and technical expertise to Scottish Water.
“Together we will support Scottish Water and their supply chain maintain essential customer services and make the important transition to deliver on our shared Carbon Net Zero commitments.”
Both Atkins and RPS have a long established working relationship with Scottish Water going back to 2006 with the partnership providing a far ranging set of complementary skills and expertise, as well as resource based in Scotland that is committed to delivering for Scottish Water.
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About Atkins
Atkins (www.atkinsglobal.com) is one of the world’s most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies, employing over 19,000 people across the UK, North America, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and Europe. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas.
About SNC-Lavalin
Founded in 1911, SNC-Lavalin is a fully integrated professional services and project management company with offices around the world dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, technology and data to design, deliver and operate the most complex projects. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. – and delivered to clients in key strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear, Operations & Maintenance and Capital. News and information are available at snclavalin.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
About RPS
Founded in 1970, RPS is a leading global professional services firm. We define, design and manage projects that create shared value by solving problems that matter to a complex, urbanizing and resource-scarce world. We work across six sectors: property, energy, transport, water, resources, defence and government services. Our services span twelve clusters: project and program management; design and development; water services; environment; advisory and management consulting; exploration and development; planning and approvals; health, safety and risk; oceans and coastal; laboratories; training and communication and creative services. We stand out for our clients by using deep expertise to solve problems that matter, making them easy to understand and by being easy to work with.
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