Barhale secures hat-trick of Thames Water sewer schemes

The civils specialist has secured the trio of jobs underneath Thames Water’s £200m-plus AMP8 Main Tasks framework for Developer Providers and Infrastructure Programmes.

The framework targets complicated infrastructure wanted to unlock improvement, protecting diversions, requisitions and lateral drainage tied to third-party schemes.

At Brent Cross, adjoining to the Peel Centre at Rushgrove Park, Barhale will design and construct a brand new offline foul storage attenuation system.

The package deal features a diversion from the present foul sewer, a 560m³ shaft tank to intercept flows from a CSO discharging right into a watercourse, and a pumped return to an current manhole.

At Benson in Oxfordshire, Barhale will ship a brand new 500m foul gravity sewer and 15 manholes to serve new housing and increase capability for current residents. The scheme shortens the present community route and improves system resilience.

At South Basingstoke, Hampshire, Barhale will assemble a brand new 590m sewer and related manholes at Winchester Highway, alongside capability upgrades to a 484m stretch of current sewer and manholes at Kempshott Lane. The works will allow future housing connections.

Design throughout all three schemes is being led by Barhale’s in-house specialist design arm, ESL.

Florin Edu, contract supervisor at Barhale, stated: “These are necessary schemes that are both assembly or anticipating progress at every location.

“They’re additionally offering a considerable profit to current residents and companies by growing community resilience and the flexibility to deal with more and more excessive climate circumstances.”