With nearly $70 billion of construction and maintenance needed over the next five years for U.K. water infrastructure, including a seemingly countless array of individual projects,water utilities there have adopted new collaborative arrangements with contractors to expedite bidding and project completion.
Thames Water Utilities Ltd., the Reading, England, mega-utility that serves 15 million customers in greater London, has signed the country’s largest-ever water alliance with a contractor group called eight2O, which has started work on $3.9 billion of new construction and upgrades on networks.