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MORRISON Utility Services
ISSUE 1 2011
COMPANY AND EMPLOYEE NEWS
NEW YEAR, NEW CLIENT, CONTINUING RELATIONSHIP UK Power networKs has awarded Morrison Utility Services a contract which is worth up to £750 million over a potential period of 15 years. The Groundworks Management contract will provide fault response, network enhancement and connections services for the electrical distribution network in the East of England. It will prioritise innovative ways of working using technology which improves the planning and scheduling of projects in order to deliver excellent customer service. In addition, we have also successfully retained our contract for refurbishing and building grid and primary substations for UK Power Networks. This programme of work is valued at £100 million over five years. Morrison Utility Services provides full, ‘turnkey’, design and project management services for schemes offering both electrical and civil engineering expertise. Basil Scarsella, Chief Executive Officer for UK Power Networks, comments: “We are looking forward to continuing our longstanding and successful relationship with Morrison Utility Services. The company plays an important role in helping us maintain a safe and reliable power supply for more than three million customers across the East of England.” Charles Morrison, Chief Executive, Morrison Utility Services, says: “In the current economy a growing order book provides us with real opportunities to invest in the future of the business. It is essential that we continue to develop our people and our systems to ensure we can be innovative and respond positively to our clients’ needs driving year on year efficiencies.
(L– R); Morrison Utility Services’ Jim Arnold, Charles Morrison and Pat Carolan and UK Power Networks’ Pat Brooks, Basil Scarsella and Bob Lane hold the signed contract charter which sets out three key performance targets for the new Groundworks contract
I am delighted to continue our successful relationship with UK Power Networks with these two significant, long-term contract awards for Extra High Voltage services and Groundworks Management. They demonstrate our competitiveness and recognise our reputation for safety and service delivery. We look forward to supporting UK Power Networks’ new owners and senior management team in helping them meet future challenges and we will be working closely with them through a significant step-change in the delivery of performance across the company’s investment programme.” n
MORRISON UTILITY SERVICES JOINS
BUSINESS IN THE COMMUNITY companies. With its advice and guidance we will look to define what responsible business practice means for Morrison Utility Services and put a strategy in place to develop our approach further in the years to come. whole lot more. Tim Sargent, our Business Development Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an approach to doing business which not only Director, says: “Joining BITC is an important first step, takes into account a company’s impact on the environment but also in relations with employees, one of many, in the development of our approach to CSR. Our aim is to be a suppliers and the communities it operates in. Many of our clients have developed their responsible business which is closely aligned own policies and working practices surrounding to our clients’ needs. The challenge for us is to develop a strategy CSR and Morrison Utility Services is often asked about its approach to being a good which works for our business and adds value to what we do every day rather than CSR corporate citizen. In order to be proactive and shape CSR being an added luxury. I believe that by laying within our business, we have begun working the groundwork in this way we will actually be with Business in the Community (BITC), a able to drive business performance; often the business-led charity with around 850 member right thing to do is the best thing to do.” n ‘BeinG a Good corporate citizen’ is a phrase which is often linked to going ‘green’ but it actually encompasses a
NOT FOR MUGGLES morrison UtiLitY serVices in partnership with National Grid is replacing the gas main within the famous Cloisters of Westminster Abbey. The hallowed grounds found fame in the Harry Potter film franchise as one of the sets for Harry’s beloved Hogwarts. The gas main supplies ornate gas lamps suspended throughout the Cloisters which the Abbey wants to preserve for future generations. National Grid Head of London Gas Distribution, Phil Clarke comments: “It is a privilege to be working in such a significant landmark and we do feel a great responsibility to ensure everything is returned just as it was. Our experience of
working in London where unearthing amazing archaeological finds are all in a day’s work will stand us in good stead for the challenges which lie ahead here.” Our work in the Cloisters is part of a larger planned project to replace gas mains around Westminster Abbey itself. Earlier in the year work was completed outside the main entrance before moving into Dean’s Yard which is part of the Abbey’s grounds. As the Abbey is the venue for the Royal Wedding on 29th April, National Grid was tasked with ensuring all mains replacement work was completed on schedule well ahead of the big day. n