Black & Veatch provides asset and environmental planning, design, construction and operational improvement services. Through the way we act and the projects we undertake Black & Veatch seeks to ensure a sustainable future for all of our stakeholders. We work with all of the UK’s water companies, as well as government and industrial clients in the UK, and around the world. The ability to combine our capabilities puts us in a unique position: the largest integrated consulting and construction company in the markets we serve.

In addition to the expertise and experience of the Black & Veatch professionals who serve them on a day-to-day basis during a project, our clients have access to the skills and knowledge of Black & Veatch professionals throughout our worldwide engineering, consulting and construction business. This Integrated Global Workforce puts a world of specialists in solving complex problems at clients’ fingertips. www.bv.com

CH2M HILL is committed to providing innovative, practical, sustainable water, wastewater and water resource solutions in the UK and throughout Europe. We help clients develop and manage infrastructure and facilities that improve efficiency, safety and quality of life.

Delivering some of the largest, most challenging projects worldwide, the firm has long been recognised as a most-admired company, and as an industry leader in programme delivery, project and construction management, operations and design by Engineering News Record for the past seven years.

CH2M HILL was also recognised as a leader in sustainable engineering by Verdantix, Sustainable Engineering Firms, an independent analyst, in 2010.

Around the world and close to home, CH2M HILL employees provide the full spectrum of consulting, design, design-build, operations, and programme management services that support your project goals. www.ch2mhill.com

Halcrow delivers planning, design and management services for developing infrastructure and buildings worldwide. We contribute to the construction, operation and maintenance of the built environment, and the protection, enhancement and maintenance of the natural environment.

We take on the big issues that affect us all – water, transportation, energy, and creating places to live and work.

Halcrow has won widespread recognition for living its purpose of sustaining and improving the quality of people’s lives. The communities it works in benefit from this focus on good corporate citizenship.
As a people-led company, Halcrow connects the right people – in the right place – no matter what stage of the project cycle. Striving to achieve excellence in all it does, it encourages collaborative working, strong team integration and a commitment to health and safety across all areas of the business. www.halcrow.com

Laing O’Rourke, the UK’s largest privately owned construction company, is currently delivering almost £1 billion of work along the Thames Estuary shaping some of the capital’s key infrastructure and building projects. Over the next two years Tamesis, a joint venture between Laing O’Rourke and Imtech Process, will extend the treatment capacity and improve the discharge quality standard of the existing sewage treatment works for Thames Water’s Beckton and Crossness Sewage Treatment Works.

In Essex, Laing O’Rourke is working for DP World delivering London Gateway Port, developing Europe’s largest deep water container terminal. Moving along the Estuary the company is delivering Farringdon Station for Thameslink as well as works to Cannon Place station. Meanwhile, British Land and Oxford Properties appointed Laing O’Rourke in August as the main contractor on The Leadenhall Building, London EC3; set to become a defining City landmark. www.laingorourke.com

The proposed Thames Tunnel is urgently needed to help tackle the 39 million tonnes of untreated sewage which overflows into the River Thames in an average year, when London’s Victorian sewerage system becomes overloaded after rainfall.

The Thames Tunnel needs to capture sewage from the 34 combined sewer overflows (CSOs) discharging directly to the river that the Environment Agency has identified as the most polluting.

Running approximately 25km long, the tunnel would capture the CSO discharges and transfer them to our Beckton Sewage Treatment Works. It would broadly follow the route of the river from Acton in west London to Abbey Mills Pumping Station in the east, up to 67 metres below ground. www.thamestunnelconsultation.co.uk

Van Oord is a leading international contractor specialising in dredging, marine engineering and offshore projects (oil, gas and wind).

We are an innovative partner for our clients and, for over one hundred years, have been helping to create the infrastructure for the world of tomorrow.

The growing world population needs more space and the demand for energy is rising constantly. Increasing world trade requires more and better port facilities and climate change is threatening coastal areas. Van Oord provides innovative solutions for these worldwide maritime challenges, both now and in the future.

Van Oord is Dutch-based, independent family business, which is characterized by visible leadership, long-term vision and a sound financial position. Substantial investments in people and equipment are made with great care to ensure the continuity of our business. Our staff are committed, entrepreneurial professionals who are passionate about water and technology. They know the importance of cooperation in achieving the best possible result. By being open and honest, they build on mutual trust and respect. www.vanoord.com

Westminster Dredging operates in all sectors of the UK dredging, marine construction and coastal engineering markets. This includes maintaining and developing the nation's ports and waterways, and providing services and materials for the country's sea defences, rock revetments, breakwaters, beach replenishment, port development projects, reclamation schemes and specialist services to the oil, gas and water industries.

Westminster Dredging is a subsidiary of Royal Boskalis Westminster nv, one of the world's largest dredging and marine construction groups. It is active in over 50 countries across the globe, thus providing access to substantial group resources to supplement the UK-based fleet. www.boskalis.co.uk

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Woods Silver Fleet

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