Simon Peevers
Senior Advisor External Communications, Bristol, United Kingdom +44 1454 667 587
AtkinsRéalis, a fully integrated professional services and project management company with offices around the world, has joined Galliford Try, one of the UK’s leading construction companies, in launching a new arrangement that will enable water industry clients to meet their AMP8 programme objectives - by having access to guaranteed levels of high-quality design engineering resource.
The initiative is being led by Galliford Try’s Environment business, and is a first for the water industry featuring consultants AtkinsRéalis, WSP, Binnies, Sweco and GHD in a collaboration never seen before.
The aim is to enhance Galliford Try’s own significant in-house design capability by guaranteeing secure levels of expertise across its UK portfolio, providing an unrivalled offering to the water industry.
Known as GT5C, the group boasts UK-wide reach with local approach and specialist skills across feasibility, outline design, detailed design and ongoing technical services – supporting Galliford Try’s existing multi-disciplinary in-house design capability.
It will also cater for active resource management across geographies to meet higher demand in specific areas using regional resources, while delivering improvements in service quality and efficiency through the use of a common service level agreement, data transfer environment, performance management regime and standardised terms and conditions. These and other unique aspects of the new arrangements will allow partners to work with Galliford Try in a closer and more agile way that mirrors their internal design capability.
Wayne Hickling Managing Director, Midlands & West Asset Creation for Galliford Try’s Environment business, who has led the initiative, said: “We are delighted to be the first contractor to offer this unique and innovative arrangement which gives our clients guaranteed levels of quality resource availability to deliver their schemes now and as they move into AMP8.
“This new agile way of working together collaboratively is an attractive differentiator for engineering delivery and a key part of our Source to Sea strategy as our clients seek to work with contractors with a strong supply chain capable of supporting them to tackle the challenges of ageing infrastructure, climate change resilience, funding pressure and a stringent regulatory environment.”
Richard Whale, Global Market Director for Water at AtkinsRéalis, said: “The challenges associated with climate change, enhanced regulation and population growth necessitates unprecedented levels of investment in the UK’s critical water and wastewater infrastructure.
“This challenge requires a paradigm shift in collaboration in delivery and we're genuinely excited to be working with Galliford Try and our partners in such an innovative framework arrangement which is designed to deliver value to our clients and their customers.”
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About AtkinsRéalis
Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-leading professional services and project management company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. 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. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services in key regions (Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Asia, the Middle East and Australia), Nuclear and Capital. News and information are available at www.atkinsrealis.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
About Galliford Try
Galliford Try is one of the biggest players in the water sector, holding 57 frameworks with 12 of the UK’s water utilities. Its expansion in the water sector reflects the Group’s Sustainable Growth Strategy to develop its offering in the water sector, offering ‘Source to Sea’ capabilities across capital delivery and maintenance, and asset optimisation to support their clients to achieve their objectives of net zero carbon, lower cost, and shorter programme duration.
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