Business hired to work on key Yorkshire Water infrastructure
An engineering and construction company has been appointed to three frameworks for Yorkshire Water across its clean and waste water assets.
Eric Wright Water, part of the Eric Wright Group, has been selected for the Complex Civil Framework, Complex Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation (MEICA) Framework and the Minor MEICA Framework.
Work delivered via the Complex Civil & MEICA framework, will include the design, build and refurbishment of Yorkshire Water’s treatment assets including reservoirs and pumping stations.
Eric Wright Water has been working with Yorkshire Water for the last five years and the new frameworks will span work delivered between 2020-2025. The business is based at Bamber Bridge near Preston, and is also a supply chain partner with United Utilities.
Commenting on the appointment by Yorkshire Water, managing director of Eric Wright Water, Neal Whittle, said: “Having worked closely with Yorkshire Water for the last five years, we are very pleased to renew our partnership with them.
“We have invested in the business by developing our people and recruiting a number of key individuals to our multi-disciplinary engineering team who will be instrumental in delivering the work through these frameworks.”
Mark Baker, head of programme delivery at Yorkshire Water, said: “We are excited to see the conclusion of this process and welcome our partners to support our ambitions and challenges into our next Asset Management Period. (2020 to 2025)
“They will assist in the formation of a truly collaborative, innovative and efficient delivery vehicle to help meet our Enterprise delivery model aspirations. The alignment of our objectives and a Programme First approach is a new direction for Yorkshire Water and we are confident our partners can support this ambition.”
Eric Wright Water was established in 2002 and today employs over 200 staff and contractors nationwide, across four offices.
The company has an annual turnover of £45m. As well as delivering work through local authority frameworks, it is growing its operation through partnerships with large contractors on civil, mechanical or electrical projects across the UK.
