Barhale has been handed projects at Brent Cross, Basingstoke and Benson under Thames Water’s £200m+ AMP8 framework for major projects for developer services and infrastructure programmes.
The framework is chiefly focused on the provision of infrastructure services required to meet the needs of third parties, such as developers, and covers a range of larger-scale, more complex work including diversions, requisitions and lateral drains.
At Brent Cross, next to the Peel Centre at Rushgrove Park, Barhale will design and construct a new offline foul storage attenuation system. It will comprise a diversion from the existing foul sewer, a 560 m3 shaft tank to provide additional storage and to intercept flows from a combined sewer overflow (CSO) spilling into the water course and a pumped return to an existing manhole. The works form part of the London Borough of Barnet’s proposed upgrades to Rushgrove Park, which include improvements to the tennis courts.
At Benson, north of Wallingford in Oxfordshire, Barhale will build and commission a new 500-metre foul gravity sewer and 15 new manholes to serve new housing development and upgrade capacity for existing residents.
In South Basingstoke, in Hampshire, Barhale will construct a new 590-metre sewer and associated manholes at Winchester Road. At Kempshott Lane it will increase the capacity of an existing 484-metre sewer and upgrade the existing manholes. The works will accommodate connections to new housing developments. Design work is being carried out by Barhale’s specialist design business, ESL.
Contract manager Florin Edu explained: “These are important schemes which are either meeting or anticipating growth at each location. They are also providing a substantial benefit to existing residents and businesses by increasing network resilience and increasing the network’s ability to cope with increasingly extreme weather conditions.”
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