Issue 7
Winter 2011 / 2012
Waste not, want not... Inside this issue...
Reality Checks - the results
Round-up of 2011
Can you guess what it is yet?
New to the team
Message from Bruno Speed
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elcome to the first issue of ImtechFlow in 2012. With the year already well underway this issue of ImtechFlow takes a brief look back at 2011 and some of the achievements we have had (pages four and five). It is also an opportunity to look forward to the year ahead of us and the exciting challenges that we face. There are a number of areas that are important to us over the next 12 months. In addition to further developing our relationships with our existing client base, following the successful completion of our Anaerobic Digestion scheme at Biffa last year, we will be focusing our attention on becoming a recognised player within the Waste and Energy sectors. We are also exploring a number of overseas opportunities, both on our own and with some key partners, including other companies within the Imtech Group. As part of our commitment to overseas development, we have become the principal sponsor for British Water’s International Programme. This 12-month sponsorship opportunity raises our profile within the global market place, positioning Imtech as a champion for the UK water and wastewater industry, through our co-branding with British Water.
News in Brief Imtech Process scoops top industry awards in 2011
Tamesis enters Thames Water’s AMP 5 Excellence in Health and Safety Awards
Imtech principal sponsors of British Water’s International Programme
Our Client and Partner Reality Checks took place again towards the end of last summer and on page three we have included some of the key results and findings from the exercise. I would like to extend a big ‘thank you’ to all of you who took part in the survey as it is this feedback that helps us to continue to grow and develop as a business. Page six includes a short update on some of our ongoing work and on page seven Stewart Bell, Imtech Technical Manager looks at some of our work in the clean water sector. Finally, the back page looks at some of the other areas of our business, and includes a H&S and sustainability update, people news and some key diary dates.
2012 exhibitions booked for Imtech ADBA (July) and RWM (September)
I hope that you find the newsletter interesting and I would welcome any comments or feedback at bruno.speed@imtech.co.uk on how we can improve our newsletter for you. Kind regards Bruno
Contact For further information on Imtech Process please contact Duncan Wildgoose on 01543 496600 or by email - duncan.wildgoose@imtech.co.uk Imtech Process Ltd
Bruno Speed Imtech Process Managing Director
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What you think about us... Client and Partner Reality Checks 2011 To enable us to continue to improve and ensure that the services we provide meet your needs, it is important that we understand your priorities and how we meet them. Throughout the late summer and early autumn of 2011 we carried out our annual external survey with our key clients and partners. The results of these are helping us shape our business and how we work with you. We would like to thank all those who took the time to complete the survey and we appreciate the honesty and candour with which you responded. We have taken the comments on board to help us move forward. The survey is carried out by an independent external consultant and overall, we were pleased with the results. The scores and comments show that we have improved year-on-year, but there are areas which we want to address to ensure that we continue to improve. We would like to share some of the key highlights with you. The following results are based on 39% partner responses, 58% client responses and 3% other. Health and safety is of primary importance to everything we do and it was reassuring to find that the perception of Imtech was that our Health and Safety performance was 100% same or better than our competitors. The quality of our solutions achieved 97% same or better than our competitors, with 56% recognising our solutions as better. We aim to ‘get it right first time’ and 91% result suggested that we do. However, we are realistic enough to realise sometimes things go wrong and when they do we have to ‘learn from our mistakes’ – again, 91% result shows that we do. (figures based on same or better than our competitors). It is important to us that we identify the best-fit solution for our clients, and this often means coming up with innovative solutions. We achieved a 94% same or better response to the question about Innovation, with a 66% of respondents recognising Imtech as better than our competitors. Developing our relationship with our clients and partners is important to us and we were delighted with the 100% ‘same or better than our competitors’ response to this. Of course the survey also identified areas for improvements and over the next 12 months we will be concentrating on these, in particular around the areas identified as the most important to customers and partners – Trust, Safety, Commitment, People, Value for Money.
Round-up of the year Scheme success 2011 was an exciting year for Imtech. We completed some major schemes including the largest Food Waste Anaerobic Digestion plant in the UK for Biffa and two award winning Advanced Digestion schemes at Cardiff and Afan for Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water. Biffa’s new facility at Cannock, Staffordshire is the biggest in the UK and will process up to 120,000 tonnes of food waste from homes and businesses each year, producing enough energy to power 6000 homes.
Biffa’s new facility at Cannock, Staffordshire
Imtech, as part of GTM (Galliford Try Imtech) JV working for Anglian Water Special Projects, accelerated its programme to deliver four new CHP units across four sites to ensure the water company achieved ROCs accreditation. Working within an extremely tight programme, the four units were procured and installed at Basildon, Cliff Quay, Colchester and Cambridge within less than a year. This was achieved before the 31 March ROCs deadline and ahead of the planned Advanced Digestion schemes, which are programmed for later in the AMP. This achievement ensured that Anglian Water and its customers benefit from the one ROC accreditation and a potential of approximately £750,000 a year for the next 20 years in additional revenue.
Anglian Water’s AMP5 CHP schemes
Imtech worked with Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water and partners on the Cardiff and Afan AD schemes, which now provide approximately 4.5 MW renewable power generation continuously. These two schemes alone will process 50,000 tDS/y using Cambi thermal hydrolysis plants and new digesters. And, the carbon savings at Cardiff and Afan is the equivalent to the benefit of a forest of five million trees.
Cardiff and Afan AD Schemes
Round-up of the year Award Success Imtech was delighted to achieve Investors in People (IIP) accreditation in 2011 and we were also successfully shortlisted for some of the industry’s leading awards including Water Industry Achievement Awards, Construction News Quality Awards, Construction Marketing Awards and the Utility Industry Achievement Awards. The following table highlights our successes both within the industry awards and also our customer’s awards. Awards
Category
Entry
Achievement
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water’s AMA Awards
Team of the Year
Cardiff AD Design Team
Won
Water Industry Achievement Awards
Carbon Reduction of the Year
Cardiff and Afan
Won
Thames Water H&S Excellence Awards
Excellence in Health & Safety Performance
Tamesis - Crossness and Beckton
Won
RoSPA
Health and Safety
Health and Safety at Imtech Process
Gold
BCE
Environmental Management
Cardiff and Afan
Won
DCWW Health and Safety Excellence Awards
Occupational Health and Safety
Be-SHARP programme
Won
Anglian Water’s ‘We Love What You Do’
Frontier Performance
GTM at Great Billing
Won
Construction News Awards
Environmental Project
Cardiff and Afan
Won
British Construction Industry
Best Practise Award
Great Billing Biosolids
Won
Institute of Water Wales Innovation Awards
Capital Delivery
Cardiff and Afan
Won
Construction Marketing Awards
Internal Communications
HR/Comms team
Won
Conference and Exhibitions Imtech also exhibited at a number of conferences and exhibitions in 2011. These included: • • • •
Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA) at the NEC, Birmingham in July Renewable Waste Management (RWM) at the NEC, Birmingham in September Biosolids Conference at the Royal Armouries, Leeds in November YouGov’s Carbon Reduction Conference at The Brewery, London in November
As one of the leading companies working with Advanced Digestion, Imtech was also invited to present papers at the ADBA and Biosolids conferences, sharing some of the learning from our work with Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water and Anglian Water in this field.
Schemes Update Work is progressing well across all our major frameworks and in DĹľr Cymru Welsh Water the teams are now flat out ensuring we deliver all the outputs required by the end of March 2012. During 2012 we will be completing the Five Fords Sludge and Habitat scheme in North Wales and starting the Construction phase of the Swansea WwTW MBBR Project in South Wales. We are currently looking at 30 live projects at various stages of completion from costing and design to construction, with a further 26 projects at feasibility stages or awaiting approvals. In Northumbrian Water the AD scheme at Howdon is progressing well, with the construction of the three new digesters complete. The majority of excavations and groundworks are also complete and the steel frames for the above ground buildings have gone up. There are a number of major schemes ongoing with Anglian Water, including Biosolids schemes at Basildon and Cliff Quay (Ipswich). There are two Regional Sludge Transfer Centres at
Market Harborough and Thetford, which are nearly completed and two clean water schemes at Elsham and Lincoln. The technical article on page seven looks at this in more detail. At Thames Water great progress is being made at Crossness STW and we anticipate turning flows into the new works by the end of 2012 with a completion by December 2013. At Beckton STW 90% of all equipment has now been ordered with the completion of this scheme due by March 2014. Imtech is also the framework contractor for Veolia Water and forthcoming schemes include Clandon WTW, a number of projects at Egham WTW and four UV schemes at Northmoor, Hare Street, Chartridge and Chesham.
Innovation / Sustainability Imtech encourages innovation With the fast-paced requirements of feasibility and cost estimating – combined with the escalating cost of electrical engineering in the marketplace – a need was identified for a software package that could rapidly produce accurate design deliverables, together with supporting documentation and accurate costing estimates.
Benefits of CEED •
Rapid production of feasibility design information, with accurate cost estimates for many options per project. This has led to the efficient selection of the best option for the detailed design and procurement phase of the projects
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Accurate electrical design information, schedules, MCC WIMES data sheets and drawings can be produced quickly and efficiently and can be used for both client approval and also for obtaining accurate tenders from the marketplace, prior to order placement
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CEED eliminates the possibility of errors in calculations and CAD copying errors, leading to an improvement in quality of design production
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CEED also enables a reduction in electrical engineering resource and the removal of the requirement for CAD resource for the production of Single Line Diagrams and MCC General Arrangement drawings
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The efficient production of the MCC General Arrangement drawings enables information relating to the required civil footprint and MCC floor loading, to be passed early in the feasibility design phase to the civil partners
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The system short circuit analysis caters to the connection of power transformers and generator sets in parallel and enables the correct MCC bus-bar fault rating to be specified at the feasibility stage.
Based on these requirements, Imtech’s Design Manager, Martin Davies, designed and developed a software package that automatically produces electrical design documentation, including data sheets and fully annotated single line diagrams, from a basic set of plant input schedules. The Cost Estimating and Electrical Design (CEED) software package utilises bespoke software written in Visual Basic programming language using Microsoft Excel, Word and Visio as the operating platform. Adaptable to any Water client’s specifications, the software has been independently verified by Imtech Engineers from the Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water’s Design office. Commented Martin Davies, designer of the software: “The CEED software can easily be adapted across the entire Imtech Process business and it has been estimated that it will make a saving of as much as £1 million per year in reduced resource requirements”. Managing director, Bruno Speed added: “This initiative is a great example of making best use of available software technology and adapting it to suit specific business requirements. We are delighted that Martin used his industry knowledge and experience to develop something that will be beneficial to all our clients.”
Five Fords: Sludge digestion and waste water improvement project nears completion Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water has invested £23 million at its Five Fords Wastewater Treatment Works, the largest plant in North Wales. The project includes improvements to waste water treatment as part of the Habitat quality improvement programme and a new anaerobic digestion plant which forms part of the AMP 5 Sludge Strategy. The project has been delivered in partnership with Costain who was responsible for the design and construction of the Civils and Imtech who was responsible for process, mechanical and electrical design and construction. Construction is now nearing completion, with testing, process commissioning and performance testing to be carried out over the next few months with renewable power generation to commence in April. The waste water treatment plant improvements include improved screening, grit removal, storm water management,
new settlement tank scrapers, improved flow control, ferric dosing, new anoxic tank, improved aeration and control. This work will ensure compliance with the new effluent consent which requires improved nitrification and phosphate removal. The new sludge treatment plant will provide improved sustainable sludge treatment in North Wales and includes imported sludge reception, sludge thickening, and two 4000 m³ anaerobic digesters, which have been designed to process up to 12,000 tonnes of sewage sludge per year. Digester gas will be collected and used by two 650KW high efficiency CHP units, to provide all process heating requirements and sufficient renewable power to move the whole works toward power self-sufficient service with savings in carbon footprint and operating costs. Treated sludge will be dewatered and recycled to local farmland with high fertiliser value.
People News Health and Safety Update Health and Safety remains the key focus of everything we do in 2012. To drive this approach David Nicholas has been appointed as the Imtech Process Health and Safety Manager. David will be responsible for working with the team to ensure an ongoing focus on Health and Safety.
It Works Imtech is committed to continuous improvement and in 2011, the Imtech Group developed and introduced new values across the group. The new values – ‘IT WORKS’ builds upon and strengthens the values already held by Imtech.
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Two of our recent new starters include Gavin Lawrenson and Robin Smith, who have joined Imtech to help develop our business within the Waste and Energy sectors. Gavin’s role at Imtech is Waste and Energy Business Development Manager, while Robin becomes Waste and Energy Senior Project Manager. Both new arrivals are keen to make their mark and are looking forward to the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.
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DIARY DATES 29 March
Water Industry Achievement Awards - ICC, Birmingham
17 - 18 May
Institute of Water Annual Conference 2012, Royal Society, London
18 May
Institute of Water Innovation Awards, London
4 - 5 July
UK AD and Biogas 2012 - NEC, Birmingham
10 July
Construction news Awards - Grosvenor House, London
11 - 13 September
RWM 2012 - NEC, Birmingham Robin Smith and Gavin Lawerson
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