VolkerFitzpatrick and VolkerStevin have been appointed to Anglian Water's Major Projects Framework, a contract that gives the two VolkerWessels UK businesses a multi-year route into up to £1.5bn (€1.75bn) of planned water and environmental infrastructure investment across the East of England.

VolkerWessels UK, employing around 4,000 people across five main business units, is a multidisciplinary contractor delivering engineering and construction solutions across rail, highways, aviation, defence, energy and water infrastructure.

VolkerFitzpatrick, tracing its history back more than 100 years, provides civil engineering, building and MEICA services across commercial, industrial, education, rail and energy sectors, while VolkerStevin specialises in defence, flood risk management, ports, energy and water infrastructure.

Anglian Water, one of the UK's largest water and wastewater companies, is running the framework within its wider £11bn (€12.87bn) AMP8 investment programme covering 2025 to 2030.

Initial schemes expected under the framework include a coastal water improvement programme worth more than £400m (€468m), aimed at reducing storm overflows and improving water quality at coastal locations across the East of England.

The framework covers up to £1.5bn (€1.75bn) of planned investment, sitting within Anglian Water's £11bn (€12.87bn) AMP8 programme; contract-specific values were not disclosed.

Framework appointments like this convert a regulatory-driven, multi-year spending settlement into contractor pipeline well ahead of any individual scheme going to tender.

AMP8 represents around £104bn of sector-wide UK water investment between 2025 and 2030, of which roughly £12bn is earmarked specifically to cut storm overflow spills by 45% from 2021 levels by 2030, and Anglian Water alone has already broken ground on more than 1,000 capital delivery schemes since April 2025, with 500 more due to start.

For the sector, water companies are increasingly using framework agreements over one-off tenders to secure delivery capacity across an entire AMP cycle, meaning contractors that win a place at framework stage capture years of pipeline visibility rather than competing scheme by scheme.

That structure favours groups like VolkerWessels UK that can combine complementary in-house capabilities across multiple business units, offering clients a single, integrated delivery partner instead of separately procuring civil engineering, MEICA and environmental resilience expertise.

Source: Construction Digital / New Civil Engineer