A wastewater therapy works in West Lothian has received a prestigious sustainability award from The Royal Academy of Engineering.
Owned and operated by Scottish Water, the £35m waste water therapy works, which was formally opened in October 2024, has been designed to serve the neighborhood by supporting an anticipated fourfold enhance in Winchburgh’s inhabitants over the approaching years.
Now Scottish Water, its supply accomplice ESD, (a three way partnership between Binnies, MWH Remedy and Galliford Attempt) Haskoning and its UK licence accomplice EPS have been recognised with the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Main Mission Award for Sustainability. The person medal winners are Colin Maybury and Jonny Tyler of Scottish Water, Stephen Fraser (ESD), Andrew Dyne (Haskoning) and Alan Ford (EPS).
The brand new website’s Nereda® therapy expertise, developed by Haskoning and supplied by way of UK licence accomplice EPS, reduces power utilization by as much as 50% in contrast with options, whereas offering a superb commonplace of therapy to guard the native setting.
The cardio granular biomass on the coronary heart of the Nereda® expertise allows a number of levels of the waste water therapy course of to happen inside one among three particular person tanks, working in sequence. This implies extra waste water will be handled sooner and with much less chemical compounds, in a smaller website space and with a much-reduced carbon footprint.
Winchburgh is the second website in Scotland to make use of the low carbon expertise, following a pioneering undertaking in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, with the identical provide chain companions. Early collaboration within the design of the West Lothian website and studying from Inverurie enabled additional vital carbon financial savings from utilizing low carbon stainless-steel slightly than concrete for the primary tanks, lowered excavation and better use of off-site fabrication. Photo voltaic technology has additionally been fitted to the roof of the location’s management constructing to fulfill a major a part of the location’s remaining power wants; and EV chargers have been put in to assist the electrification of Scottish Water’s car fleet.
Winners will obtain their medals at a ceremony in London in July.
Joanne Kay, GM Wastewater Operations, Scottish Water mentioned:
“Winchburgh Waste Water Remedy Works has been designed to assist clients in one of many nation’s fastest-growing communities, and I’m thrilled that the shut collaborative work with our companions has been recognised via this prestigious sustainability award.
“Supply of Winchburgh WWTW mirrored a major step ahead for sustainability, driving down carbon emissions in building with out compromising on high quality. Scottish Water will proceed to work with companions to ship the additional enhancements wanted to transcend internet zero emissions by 2040.
“The Wastewater Buyer Service Supply crew is immensely proud to function this new state-of-the-art therapy facility at Winchburgh. It stands as a testomony to our dedication to excellence in service supply, environmental stewardship, and neighborhood assist. The power not solely marks a significant development in wastewater therapy but additionally performs an important position in safeguarding the native setting and assembly the wants of a rising neighborhood.”
Peter Walsh, COO, ESD, mentioned:
“Together with our companions Haskoning and EPS, ESD is completely delighted to have received this yr’s RAE sustainability award. We’re proud to be a Scottish Water Alliance Accomplice, defending public well being and the setting throughout Scotland.
“The brand new Winchburgh wastewater therapy works is a good step ahead for the environmentally delicate therapy of wastewater. We share Scottish Water’s ambition to realize internet zero by 2040 and the applied sciences used at Winchburgh will assist us obtain that objective. This undertaking units a transparent benchmark for different comparable initiatives deliberate for the long run.
“This prestigious award is worthy recognition for the entire crew. Honest due to my ESD colleagues and our provide chain companions for his or her dedication and experience which has resulted within the profitable completion of this essential flagship undertaking.”
Andrew Dyne, Contracts Supervisor, Haskoning mentioned:
“This award is a testomony to what will be achieved via true collaboration and a shared dedication to sustainability. At Haskoning, we’re proud to see our Nereda® expertise as soon as once more delivering real-world affect—supporting Scottish Water and the folks of Winchburgh with a future-proof, low-carbon answer that units a brand new commonplace for wastewater therapy within the UK.”
Shaun Stevens, UK Basic Supervisor, EPS mentioned:
“We’re delighted to see this recognition of the Winchburgh undertaking by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The scheme was a real exemplar of collaboration between all the key stakeholders, from the distant design-phase partnership throughout the Covid pandemic, via to the deployment of revolutionary expertise and a cutting-edge off-site supply methodology.
“It units a transparent commonplace and supplies a working template for future undertaking supply. The award is testomony to the progressive considering of the undertaking companions and the management of the medal winners via the undertaking lifecycle.”
