Issue 9 Summer 2013

This is How its Done

ADBA Sponsors

Inside this issue...

Wakefield AD Award ShortlistExcellence Award

Training exercise ensures safety firstInside this issue...

Imtech will be sponsoring the Anaerobic Digestion and

Biogas Association (ADBA) Awards again this year for the

second time.

Message from Bruno Speed

elcome to the

Summer issue of

our newsletter

ImtechFlow. The beginning of

2013 has seen some big changes

for the company. As Im sure you

are all aware, as of January 2013,

Imtech Process has a new name.

We have now been rebranded

and have changed our name

to Imtech Water, Waste and

Energy, a name change that

better reflects the sectors of business we primarily work within.

This is part of a wider strategy across the Imtech UK group to

enhance the development of a broad-based technical services

business in the UK, Ireland and other carefully selected areas, where

it is recognised we can add real value and strengthen the Imtech

brand. The rebranding and restructuring across the group will enable

the business to accommodate future growth.

Within Imtech Water, Waste and Energy our hard work is

continuing to be recognised within the industry through further

shortlisting of our projects at key awards, including the Water

Industry Achievement Awards and the Construction News Awards.

In other news in this edition of ImtechFlow, we have two senior

level appointments to mention, with Martin Luff and Duncan Atkins.

Martin has been appointed Business Technical Manager, while

Duncan has become our Business Development Director.

We also have updates on how our schemes are progressing across

the business, plus the exciting news that a film crew visited Beckton,

to shoot part of the BBC One hands-on science programme Bang

Goes the Theory.

As the year swiftly moves on, it looks like 2013 will mark the next

exciting chapter of the Imtech story.

Kind regards

Bruno

Bruno Speed

Imtech Water, Waste and Energy

Managing Director

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News in Brief

Construction News Awards

Imtech to sponsor ADBA awards again

Inviron Airports

Imtech UK Group has sponsored the Sustainable Company

of the Year category at this years Construction News

Awards.

Bruno Speed, managing director at Imtech Water, Waste

and Energy has now taken on additional responsibility of

managing director for Inviron Airports.

an Imtech company

businesses take note and implement the excellent work done

by all the entrants.

After the win, Martin Davies commented, Weve worked very

hard on this project and its great to see that time and effort

acknowledged. Both Jac and I are very proud to receive this

award and we congratulate everyone who entered. The

competition was very strong.

Imtech on show...Forthcoming exhibitions

We are exhibiting at the two-day Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas

Associations (ADBA) annual trade show and conference. Billed as

The Energy Behind the AD Revolution, this annual event takes

place at the Birmingham NEC on 3-4 July 2013. ADBA is the UKs

only trade show dedicated exclusively to anaerobic digestion and

biogas. As it continues to grow, year-on-year, this exciting event

offers more exhibitors, more visitors and featured areas, and

more opportunities for us to maintain a high industry profile. Tim

Speakman, Engineering Manager, will also be presenting at the

show.

We are also

exhibiting at the Resource

Efficiency and Waste

Management Solutions

(RWM) 2013, which also

takes placed at the NEC,

from 10-12 September. This

is Europes premier event

for discovering the

latest developments in resource efficiency and waste management.

With a programme that includes over 750 exhibitors and more than

150 expert speakers, RWM is the largest free CPD-accredited

conference in the industry.

Both these shows have proved to be important opportunities for us

to showcase ourselves in the waste sector.

Awards updateAnd the winner is...We are delighted to announce that

Imtech has successfully achieved

ROSPA Gold for the fifth

consecutive year. We have also been

awarded a bronze award in the

Management of Occupational Road

Risk (MORR).

More good news on the honours

front, as Northumbrian Waters

(NWL) Howdon AD project has

been shortlisted in the Sustainable

Project of the Year category of the

Construction News Awards. The

winner will be announced at an

Awards dinner in July.

The Howdon AD project, as part of NWLs Sludge Strategy

has also won the Guardians Sustainable Business Awards in

the Waste and Recycling category and was shortlisted for

the Robert Stephenson Award held by the Institute of Civil

Engineers.

The Water Industry Achievement

Awards took place at the end of

March, and we again sponsored the

Partnership Initiative of the Year

category, which was presented to the

winning entrant by Wayne Hickling,

Imtech Proposals

Director.

Award success for two Im-techiesAt the Imtech Group Operational Excellence Awards 2013,

Martin Davies and Jac Jones of Imtech Water, Waste and

Energy, emerged as joint winners for their innovative Cost

Estimating & Electrical Design (CEED) software. They won

6000 in prize money and shared the top spot with Jacqui Cook

and Rob Needham, of Imtech G&H, for their apprenticeship

scheme entry.

The aim of the newly-developed CEED software package is

to automatically produce electrical estimates and design

documentation including data sheets and fully annotated

SLDs from a basic set of plant input schedules.

The new Operational Excellence Awards were judged in

February and the judges were so impressed that they awarded

18,000 to all five shortlisted entries. The awards were

presented at the Awards Dinner, held at the Savill Court Hotel

near Ashford. When announcing the winners, Paul Kavanagh,

Group Chief Executive, said, Innovation is key to our success

as a business. We have to develop ways to keep ahead of the

game, whether its developments in technical or process. These

awards will help this and Im very keen that the MDs of the

Martin Davies and Jac Jones receive their award from Paul Kavanagh

Fire training exercises ensures everyone knows the drillUnited Utilities Runcorn Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW)

recently hosted a special training session, which was staged

in conjunction with Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service. The

Technical Rescue team based at Knutsford Fire Station attended

the site, along with fire crews from Runcorn, in a mock-up of

an emergency situation.

United Utilities is currently building a 10m works upgrade

that will improve the quality of the water which enters the

environment following the wastewater treatment process. In

total, a team of 14 fire-fighters and three fire engines attended

the site and carried out a mock rescue. A dummy was used as

the subject of the exercise, as though a person had

accidentally fallen into one of the site tanks. The crews had to

safely access the tank and the role-play was enacted as a live

incident, unfolding in real time. Imtech, one of United Utilities

contractors, identified the possible training need with the

water company while it was reviewing its emergency

procedures and contacted Knutsford Fire Service. Andy

Hallworth, Crew Manager at Knutsford Fire Station said: Its

always important for us to understand the potential risks in

a construction environment. The more prepared we are as a

team, the more effectively we are able to respond to a crisis if

the need arises.

Fire Training

Jason Ross, Imtechs senior site manager found the exercise

useful: The site team was pleased to cooperate on the

training exercise, as we are very proactive when it comes to

the safety of our workforce its as much about reassurance

on both sides as it is about the emergency drill itself.

The construction phase at Runcorn treatment works started in

autumn 2011 and is due to be completed by summer 2013.

installation has started, with the bulk of the installation

continuing over the rest of 2013. We aim to start

commissioning before the end of this year.

10M project award

10 million project award for the Ros Roca Imtech Joint

Venture (RRIJV) at Wakefield.

RRIJV has been awarded a contract worth 10 million, for an

AD Biogas plant in Wakefield, by Shanks Waste Management

Limited. The AD facility forms part of a planned waste

treatment park at South Kirkby near Wakefield, which will

receive and treat up to 230,000 tonnes of waste per year.

Shanks has signed

a 25-year PFI

contract with

Wakefield Council,

which will be worth

an estimated 750

million. RRIJV has

completed the initial

project design and

Kier Infrastructure

and Overseas will

undertake the civil work. Following completion of the civil

construction, RRIJV will be onsite by early Summer 2014 and

completion of the whole project is programmed for Summer

2015.

Thames Water on TVIn March BBC film crews visited the Beckton STW, our Tamesis

joint-venture project at the largest sewage treatment facility in

Europe. Once complete, the site will be able to treat 60% more

sewage than it currently does. The BBC was filming for the

science programme Bang Goes the Theory. Two small crews

attended: one in the Lee Tunnel, the other in the sewage

treatment process. Also in March, the site was visited by

Stephen Timms, MP for East Ham.

Project updates Across the UK our teams are busy with a wide range of projects

for many of our clients. With Howdon AD now successfully

completed for Northumbrian Water, we are also waiting to find

out how the project fares at some of the top industry awards.

Over in United Utilities, we have handed over our project in

Formby and our work at Runcorn WwTW is progressing well.

Our teams in Wales have also been busy completing successful

programmes of work including the Dirty 30 and the Cheshire

Six. Health and safety remains high on the agenda throughout

all our projects, with a particular focus on our Be-SHARP

initiative, which is our Behavioural Safety Hazard and Accident

Reduction Programme.

Affinity Water and Anglian now at commissioning stage

Imtech reaches the final commissioning stage for two projects

for Affinity Water and Anglian Water

Imtech is reaching the final commissioning stages for two

projects for Affinity Water. Clandon and Hadham Mill WTWs

are in the last stages and are due to be handed over to the

client soon. These are just two successfully completed projects

from a wider programme of work for Affinity Water, which

represents well over 36,000 hours onsite worked to date.

Basildon and Cliff Quay, two projects for Anglian Water, are

also entering their commissioning and handover stages.

Anglian progress

Anglians Water Programme progress

Construction, installation and commissioning is now complete

at Elsham, and the works has been fully handed back over to

the client. Congratulations to all the team members involved in

a very successful project. While at Hall WTW, the scheme is fully

underway, with many of the main civil elements complete. The

design team is located on site and the mechanical and electrical

Howdon AD plant

Beckton STW

The third part of the process, the Biological Stage, is the

Defined Aerobic Mixing Process (DAMP). The waste is reduced

in size, homogenised and mixed. Processed water is then

circulated into the mix, resulting in a uniform consistency.

Presses are used to separate the water residue from the solids.

Here the process diverges, with the solids proceeding to stage

four, Biological Drying. Meanwhile, the organic-rich water

residue is mechanically and physically processed to separate any

course or fibrous materials. Micro organisms living in biogas

fermenters create biogas from organic compounds, which is

subsequently used to create electricity and heating. In this

process, more electrical energy and heat is produced every year

than is required by the entire biological facility. At the end of

the water treatment process, the resultant liquid is either clean

water, water that can be used for agricultural irrigation or

nutrient-rich water that can act as liquid fertilisers, as permitted

by local regulations.

At the Biological Drying stage, solids are dried out using energy

from the waste, in tightly-sealed concrete tunnels. Air flows

through the waste, feeding micro organisms in the waste with

nourishing oxygen. The micro organisms produce biogas, clean

the air and water and also feed on the materials organic

components to produce the heat energy needed for drying.

After this brief treatment period, the material is finally

available in a form, which can then be broken down and

divided into its constituent elements. In step five, the

fully-automated Mechanical Material Separation, screening,

sifting and sorting systems decompose the dry material into

various sub-factions. Energy-rich, combustible materials and

minerals, are transported through special conveying systems to

the loading stations, where they are ready to be dispatched.

Thus economically usable raw materials and high-quality energy

material have been attained from waste material. MYT

produces 38% water and 38% fuels, 10% mineral substances,

5% biogas and 2% metals from the waste delivered to the ZAK

plant in Ringsheim. The waste material makes >95% energy

and raw materials and

Making appointmentsThe business is always looking for high quality people to join

the team and over the last six months there has been many

new appointments across the business. Here, we just want to

highlight a few of them.

Lets get technicalWe are pleased to report that Martin Luff has been appointed

business technical manager. Martin will be supporting the

technical director and provide process engineering leadership.

The role will be focused on supplementing current

technical innovation, governance and organisation for projects

and proposals across Imtech. Martin has over 20 years

experience working with multi-disciplinary engineering teams.

He will be working on developing and supplementing

existing technical skills amongst the Imtech team. Martin

commented: I am really looking forward to building on the

already established reputation

Imtech has in the industry. A key

challenge for me is how we

maintain the technical quality on

Imtechs projects, as the

organisation continues to grow

into new business areas.

The new businessdevelopment teamIn such a busy year, Imtech Waste, Water and Energy has

recognised the need to grow its business development team.

Duncan Wildgoose, business development manager, has been

joined by Duncan Atkins, business development director, Kevin

Clarke, business development manager Waste and Energy

and Clare Lambert, business development assistant.

We are consolidating and developing the strength and core

capabilities of our team. Weve identified the elements that

we believe are key to a rounded Imtech employee and have

organised these under the five headings you see within the

head above. This people development strategy, known as

Myfuturemychoice, will enable us to deliver all our training

and development opportunities going forward. We hope that

in focusing on each of the areas identified, we will be providing

improved staff training, which will ultimately deliver improved

customer service.

CongratulationsCongratulations to Emma Passe

from our St. Davids office,

whose hard work has paid off.

She has become a Chartered

Engineer with the IMeCHE.

Clare Lambert, Duncan Atkins, Kevin Clarke and Duncan Wildgoose

People NewsmyfuturemychoiceLearning and Development.the way ahead

The Industry and Imtech

HSQ /Sustainability

Personal Effectiveness

Leadership and Management

Professional / Technical /Commercial

People NewsCharity updateAll of Imtechs regional offices support as many charities as

possible, both locally and nationally. We recognise that its

important for us, as a large, high-profile company, to use our

resources to help charitable organisations, by raising money for

good causes.

Throughout the year, we engage in lots of entertaining

fundraising activities, with many of our employees also

independently raising large donations via sponsorship.

These include walks, strolls or hikes, up hill and down dale,

or running marathons and other energetic outdoor pursuits.

Further funds are raised with such in-office activities as cake

sales, charity sweet boxes, or special days when our staff dress

up or dress down.

Two recent mammoth fundraising events undertaken by staff

was Ailsa Tysons Peruvian hike, where she raised almost 4000

for Macmillan Cancer Support. And Dominik Krolik and Adrian

Jaques took part in Oxfams Trailtrekker Challenge, a 100km

trek across the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

Through both the Summer Ball and working with our clients,

we are also proud to be an on-going supporter of WaterAid,

the international charity which works in 27 countries worldwide

and transforms millions of peoples lives every year, with safe

water, hygiene and sanitation projects.

www.imtech.co.uk

DIARY DATES 20133 - 4 July Anarobic Digestion and Biomass Association (ADBA) annual trade show, NEC, Birmingham

11 JulyConstruction News Awards at the Grosvenor Hotel, Park Lane, London

10 -11 SeptemberResource Efficiency and Waste Management Solutions (RWM) industry exhibition and conference, NEC, Birmingham