Ferrovial, in a joint venture with MWH Treatment, has been named to one of two contracts on Anglian Water’s Major Projects Framework, giving the pair a route into up to £1.5bn (€1.75bn) of water and recycling schemes in the East of England under the utility’s £11bn (€12.9bn) AMP8 programme.

Ferrovial, a global infrastructure group, is represented through its UK construction business, which won an approximately £80m (€93.6m) upgrade of Slough Sewage Treatment Works earlier this year and previously worked on the central section of the Thames Tideway Tunnel.

MWH Treatment, part of RSK Group since 2021 and based near Manchester, is a UK water treatment contractor with more than 800 process engineering and delivery professionals and a sector heritage dating to 1820.

Anglian Water, based in Huntingdon, serves one of the largest geographical regions of any UK water company and cites Sizewell C, the Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor and the proposed Universal Studios resort as drivers of demand for new water and wastewater capacity.

The framework, worth £1.5bn (€1.75bn) excluding VAT, is split into two contracts, the other held by a second joint venture, and initial work for the Ferrovial joint venture is forecast to include the coastal water improvement programme, expected to exceed £200m (€234m).

The framework is valued at up to £1.5bn (€1.75bn) excluding VAT across both contracts; the value of the Ferrovial and MWH Treatment contract alone was not stated.

This is the second half of a framework already split in two: Anglian Water’s contract award notice named two joint ventures, with Ferrovial and MWH Treatment on the first contract and VolkerFitzpatrick and VolkerStevin on the second, each contract awarded to two suppliers.

A separate summary of the award describes a five-year framework extendable to 2036, including around £450m (€526m) of coastal waters improvement work, which frames the scale of the Ferrovial joint venture’s initial £200m-plus allocation.

For the sector, a two-contract structure with paired civil and treatment specialists shows how water companies are matching heavy civils capacity with process expertise on large AMP8 schemes, and subcontractors will want to track which joint venture holds the schemes in their area.

Source: World Construction Network / Smart Water Magazine / Newsom Consulting