Date 06 Jul 2022
Members from Galliord Try’s Environment team have been sharing their thoughts on the future of the water sector, as part of a new report produced by the Water Industry Forum (WIF).
Strategic Development Director Rob Smith, Business Development Director Mark Hanrahan, and Pre-Construction Manager Neil Whittle contributed to the report, entitled ‘The optimal delivery model for AMP8’, in conjunction with peers from Turner & Townsend, JN Bentley and Atkins.
The report is based on a series of workshops with the authors facilitated by WIF and supported by Turner & Townsend. The process also included feedback from five water companies on an early draft of the paper. The paper’s publication will be marked by a breakfast webinar on Tuesday 12 July.
The paper outlines potential responses to the challenging and volatile backdrop for water service delivery, affected by supply chain disruption from Brexit and COVID-19, the prevailing economic environment and the drive on sustainability.
Areas of focus highlighted in the paper include a need to be collaborative when sharing risk across the supply chain and the water companies, incentive models to incorporate social value and net zero, and closer alignment between tender scope and actual delivery requirements.
The paper also calls on water companies to build capital delivery approaches around two distinct delivery models - a programmatic approach and a client-side ownership approach and also to recognise the potential for suppliers to leave the sector if action is not forthcoming.
Rob Smith, Strategic Development Director for Galliford Try Environment, commented: “The water sector is not immune to the pressures that face all businesses working to enhance our national infrastructure. It’s only by acknowledging those issues for both the supply chain and the client base, and collaborating through them, that we are going to achieve outcomes that ensure the viability of the industry and produce the high-quality infrastructure the country requires.”
The paper can be downloaded from the WIF website here and interested parties can register for the webinar on 12 July here.