Scottish Water Solutions
Galliford Try is one of the equity partners in the multi award winning Scottish Water Solutions (SWS), formed in 2003 to deliver £1 billion of Scottish Water’s £1.8 billion Q&S II Capital Investment Programme, the largest investment programme in the UK in recent years. A further £760 million was added in 2006 of the Q&S IIIa CIP.
Galliford Try has contributed significant asset management skills to the eight partner joint venture, effective management of design, resource, supply chain, construction through to commissioning and handover to the client. A number of innovative solutions were implemented to produce efficiencies in delivering both the Q&S II Programme and the Q&S IIIa Programme.
The project has been a driving force for a model which has so far successfully delivered more than £1.9 billion of projects and has become a blueprint for best practice partnership working in the industry. It has also attracted positive interest from the water industry globally
Many long standing "problem" schemes in Scotland have been challenged by SWS with issues resolved resulting in the delivery of a number of landmark projects. The remote and independent nature of many of the communities where Galliford Try has been delivering projects has also required a high level of community engagement.
Galliford Try formed a joint venture with Morgan Est to deliver SWS projects in the West of Scotland stretching from Orkney & Shetlands in the north to Ayrshire in the south and has so far successfully delivered more than £270 million of projects for Scottish Water Solutions.
Tangible benefits have also been seen in the success of Galliford Try managed programmes such as the pan-Scotland reservoir security investment and the clustering of UCSO schemes, both of which have created best practice for use on other programmes of work.
External recognition of the achievements of the Solutions’ partnership in delivering efficiently and safely has seen Scottish Water Solutions win three Utility Industry Awards and both Solutions and GMJV have reached and maintained the RoSPA gold standard in Health and Safety. A £6 million scheme to connect 180 properties to the public sewer network at Cove and Kilcreggan on the West coast was singled out under the Considerate Constructors scheme for its “exceptional measures in community relations”.
Client: Scottish Water
Value: Q&S II = £1 billion, Q&S III = £760 million
Scope: Water, Waste Water, Infrastructure, Utilities
Start date of current contract: 2003
Duration: Four years Q&SII and four years Q&SIII