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The Challenge:

Our wide range of services under the ‘MEICA Capital Works Framework’ relates to the construction, extension, refurbishment, alteration and/or demolition of SWW’s ground water and sewerage infrastructure. These include:

  • Mechanical, electrical and instrumentation
  • Detail design of MEICA and civil schemes
  • Civil engineering
  • Design development
  • Procurement
  • Manufacture of MCC
  • Reactive & planned plant & equipment repairs
  • PLC code writing
  • Commissioning
  • Planning
  • Emergency call outs

We provide SWW with services based on clear paths of delivery for capital asset management, covering Capital Planned, Reactive, and Emergency responses.

The Solution:

Customer Service

  • Our activity at SWW sites is devised by Kier’s in-house design team to provide value engineered solutions undertaken to minimise community impact.
  • Supported by dedicated Customer Liaison Officer

Quality

  • Kier staff remain in constant communication with the client’s nominated staff throughout the repair lifecycle producing full works reports to client expectations including photos, test procedures, results and NICEIC certificates as applicable
  • Introduced form 2 control panel technology to SWW

Delivery Timescales

  • Field teams comprise of dedicated, experienced and fully qualified personnel conversant with all core MEICA skills, to enable 2hrs response time from receipt of call on a 24hr/7days a week basis.
  • We develop offsite build designs, reducing site durations.

Management

  • The department consists of a dedicated team, with core water industry technical backgrounds, coordinating and overseeing the client’s requests for assistance
  • Management and Operatives’ skills and qualifications are managed and monitored by our contract specific training matrices.

The Impact:

Current MEICA AFR in the South West is 0 having received no RIDDORs in the last 3 years. As a recent initiative on our existing MEICA framework, we have undertaken a comprehensive health and safety review of all its site-level safe systems of work, involving broad consultations and input from site operatives and subject matter experts.

A detailed risk assessment of all identified activities has been completed, which was used to identify and inform high-risk (both from a health and safety perspective and from a business-critical level) activities, from which a suite of MEICA-specific Safe Systems of Work has been prepared, in line with the evolution of the framework and following feedback for continuous improvement.

This initiative allows accurate information to be immediately available to our workforce and supply chain to further enhance our approach to health & safety and the quality of our delivery going forward.

" It is great to see a building that not only shows an absolute commitment to creating a superb space for people to work, take exercise, have fun and relax in, but also one that takes account of the environment and broader aspects of sustainability. An excellent example to others of what can be achieved through the use of BREEAM with a well-informed client and design team. "
Martin Townsend Director of BREEAM BRE

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Every project we deliver is an opportunity for us to bring our unique thinking to solve problems, innovate and collaborate with our clients and beyond.

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Berkeley Green & UTC South Gloucestershire & Stroud College (SGS)

Rising from the ashes of a decommissioned former nuclear site, SGS Berkeley Green, a converted 1940’s engineering hall, and new University Technical College (UTC) are the first educational buildings to be completed on a new ground-breaking GREEN campus, within Gloucestershire Science and Technology Park.

Southern Resilience Scheme

Delivering a new £27m and 30.5km pipeline for Bristol Water, overcoming biodiversity and sustainability issues, handling the logistics presented by the pipeline passing through five towns and bringing improved water supply to 280,000 customers.

Hinkley Point C

Major Earthworks project to prepare for construction of UK’s first nuclear power station for a generation.

South Bank Place multi-utility design project

A short-term central London consultancy project turned into a ground-breaking multi-utility project, moving eight utilities to prepare for a new 800-apartment development, setting the standard in how these projects should be delivered in the capital.

Deephams Waste Water Treatment Plant Upgrade

Meeting both regulatory and consumer needs.

Global Student Accommodation (GSA), Exeter

We completed Clifford House, a student housing association project, for Global Student Accommodation (GSA), two weeks early. It’s our second project for GSA and provides state-of-the-art student accommodation for 312 students studying at Exeter University.

Gloucester Transport Hub

A unique and distinctive regeneration project promoting Gloucester’s unparalleled heritage from archaeology to aviation. The Hub is a highly symbolic part of the rejuvenation of the main entry point into the city, a gateway used in Roman times which is now served by both road and rail.

Cheltenham Ladies College, Fitness Centre

The addition of high-class sport and leisure facilities for one of the UK’s most distinguished private schools has created flexible, multi-purpose spaces wrapped around the existing centre. Alongside a new sports hall, activity studios, squash courts and a gym, are additional changing rooms, a MUGA and new car park.

Congresbury Yeo tidal defences

Kier worked as part of Team Van Ord (TVO) to improve the standard of protection provided to 39,741 properties in the towns and villages of Worle, Weston-Super-Mare, Kingston Seymour and Wick St Lawrence by improving the 3670m of earth bank tidal defences lining the Congresbury Yeo Estuary.

St Sidwells Point Leisure Centre

Creating the UK’s first Passivhaus standard ultra-low carbon leisure centre, designed to save up to 70% on annual energy costs.

South Killingtholme sewage diversion

The diversion of a 200mm sewage rising main to accommodate the removal and replacement of a railway bridge.

The Steart Coastal Management Project

Kier worked as part of Team Van Ord (TVO) on The Steart Coastal Management Project which was the UK’s largest coastal management scheme, helping to protect homes and business from flooding due to climate change and rising sea levels.​

Aerospace Bristol

Creating a new £19m aviation museum showcasing the role played by the Bristol site in Britain’s aviation history, including a hangar to house the last Concorde ever to fly, restoring a Grade 1 listed First World War hangar to create an exhibition space

Emergency bridge replacement at Yoxall Waste Water Treatment works

Kier Utilities replace failing bridge in record time to allow crucial asset to remain functional.

Cheltenham Racecourse Redevelopment

Delivering a new 6,500-capacity 5 ½​ storey grandstand at one Britain’s most iconic racecourses.

Stolford Flood Defence Scheme

Kier installs first Dutch flood protection system in UK to help Environment Agency protect Somerset homes and agricultural land.

Browns Hill & Horn Hill Steps, Water Main Replacement

Mains replacement scheme in historically sensitive area.

MEICA Capital Works Framework

Kier delivers work for South West Water (SWW) under the ‘MEICA Capital Works Framework’, a multi-disciplinary framework for maintenance, refurbishment and the expansion of water treatment and sewage treatment works. 

Waste Water Alliance

General Repair and Maintenance of Scottish Water’s Sewer Network, including reactive, 24/7, rehab, rising mains, gravity sewers, connections, capital maintenance projects.

Hampton by Hilton, Bristol Airport

The construction of a hotel consisting of 201 bedrooms over four floors, utilising significant offsite manufacture.

Trade City and Logistics City

Developing more than six million sq ft of award winning speculative industrial space, with sizes ranging from small start-up to national distribution units through Kier Property's Trade City and Logistics City brands.

St Mary’s Harbour

Kier used our marine expertise to undertake improvement works to St Mary’s Harbour on the Isles of Scilly, located within areas of national and international environmental and ecological protection.​

Utility Conflict Resolution for Edinburgh Trams

A high profile 3km route clearance of 1500 utility conflicts through Edinburgh city centre, delivered within budget and achieving all programme milestones, whilst minimising disruption to local businesses and residents.

Pipe Bridge Remediation Scheme

Working with Severn Trent Water (STW) to deliver the pipe remediation scheme, monitoring pipes carrying sewage around bridge sites.

Falmouth School Sports Pavilion

The design and construction of a sports pavilion, including FA compliant changing facilities, gym, office space and flexible recreation areas. In addition a first floor balcony was incorporated into the design which overlooks the sports pitches.

Cathedral School

Creating a two-form entry primary school within a Grade 1 listed building.

Lyneham Defence Technical Training Centre

Redeveloping RAF Lyneham as a world-class Ministry of Defence training centre.

Ingoldmells Sewage Treatment Works

Repairing the roof of the Ingoldmells sludge treatment building, using an alternative solution to improve efficiency and reduce cost.

Keelby STW sludge holding tank lining

Kier's innovative water solution maintained a communities vital asset and reduced costs for the client.

Finlake Leisure Pool

Designing and constructing a new leisure complex within this holiday village on the edge of the Dartmoor National Park in Devon, including toddler and 20m adult swimming pools, Tornado and Twister flume rides, and water playground, gymnasium, other leisure facilities and associated plant and equipment.

New water mains connection

Customers benefit from innovation delivering a faster new connection in Newton Abbot.

The Chase SEN

Converting and regenerating a disused engineering building at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College to create striking new modern facilities for disabled students.

Dyson, Hullavington

The design and redevelopment of a World War II hanger, to create a new research and development centre for Dyson.

Shire Hall

The re-emergence of Gloucestershire County Council’s (GCC) Shire Hall after its retrofit and refurbishment reads like a fairy-tale. Over 165 weeks and 82 phases of collaborative, innovative team-working, the part-listed, part 1960’s building, an eyesore, tired and inefficient, was responsibly and dynamically transformed into an elegant and highly sustainable workplace.

F1 Meter Exchange Programme

Working collaboratively, the IMDS Alliance and the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) improved the method of installing water meters. The new process for Anglian Water’s new smart meters saves time on install and saves end-users water and money through faster identification of leaks and more accurate bills.

Plymouth Central HUBER alternative dewatering scheme

Replacing existing ageing centrifuge assets with a, first of its kind, application of the HUBER Q-Press. This improved odour control measures, reduced chemical consumption and halved annual operating costs at Plymouth Central Sewage Treatment Works, as part of South West Water’s MEICA Framework.

NHS Nightingale Bristol

Converting the University of West England conference centre into a temporary hospital in just 20 days, providing increased capacity for the NHS following the outbreak of COVID-19.

Keeping customers connected during COVID-19

Providing a 24/7 reactive service to South West Water during the COVID-19 lockdown to ensure the network could cope with increased water demand. Adopting new ways of working to maintain social distancing.  

Ecclesiastical Insurance Group Headquarters

Ecclesiastical Insurance Group, one of Gloucester’s biggest employers, had offices throughout the city which were not considered future proof. They decided to consolidate all Gloucester based staff into a new purpose-build headquarters on Gloucester Business Park. The building is leased from Arlington, owners of the business park, and long-term clients of Kier.

Loe Bar Outfall Winter Readiness

Replacing eroded concrete along a 40m length of Loe Bar Outfall by spraying concrete on the front and top face of the outfall and around the inspection chamber. The works had to be completed by the end of October 2020.

Helston (River Cober) Flood Alleviation Scheme

The development of a CL:AIRE Materials Management Plan (MMP), enabled the use of soils, which would normally be classified as waste, from a local development site within flood banks on the Helston (River Cober) Flood Alleviation Scheme, Helston, West Cornwall.

Iffley Academy

New-build construction of a community Special Academy judged ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted in 2019, for pupils up to the age of 18 with complex special educational needs and disabilities. The new academy replaces unfit for purpose old buildings, adding animal care, horticulture and construction facilities, a mock flat and pupil-run café.

Whitelands Academy, Kingsmere

A brand new 600 pupil secondary academy school for years 7-11, built to support Kingsmere, a new housing development in south-west Bicester. Constructed to BREEAM principles, the academy features 26-classrooms, SEN provision, a four-court sports hall built and fitted to Sport England standard, external social spaces and multi-use games areas.

Clearwater Primary Academy

A ‘Forever Home’ for a nomadic Primary School which originally operated from dilapidated portacabins and then moved to occupy converted offices with no playground. The new Academy is a spacious home to 67 pupils but allows for 420-student capacity as the new housing developments in the area become occupied.