A wastewater remedy works in West Lothian has gained a prestigious sustainability award from The Royal Academy of Engineering.
Owned and operated by Scottish Water, the £35m waste water remedy works, which was formally opened in October 2024, has been designed to serve the neighborhood by supporting an anticipated fourfold improve in Winchburgh’s inhabitants over the approaching years.
Now Scottish Water, its supply companion ESD, (a three way partnership between Binnies, MWH Remedy and Galliford Attempt) Haskoning and its UK licence companion EPS have been recognised with the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Main Undertaking 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 web site’s Nereda® remedy expertise, developed by Haskoning and offered by way of UK licence companion EPS, reduces power utilization by as much as 50% in contrast with options, whereas offering a wonderful normal of remedy to guard the native atmosphere.
The cardio granular biomass on the coronary heart of the Nereda® expertise allows a number of levels of the waste water remedy course of to happen inside certainly one of three particular person tanks, working in sequence. This implies extra waste water may be handled sooner and with much less chemical substances, in a smaller web site space and with a much-reduced carbon footprint.
Winchburgh is the second web site 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 web site and studying from Inverurie enabled additional important carbon financial savings from utilizing low carbon chrome steel relatively than concrete for the principle tanks, decreased 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 big a part of the location’s remaining power wants; and EV chargers have been put in to help 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 help 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 big 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 web zero emissions by 2040.
“The Wastewater Buyer Service Supply staff is immensely proud to function this new state-of-the-art remedy facility at Winchburgh. It stands as a testomony to our dedication to excellence in service supply, environmental stewardship, and neighborhood help. The power not solely marks a serious development in wastewater remedy but in addition performs an important position in safeguarding the native atmosphere and assembly the wants of a rising neighborhood.”
Peter Walsh, COO, ESD, mentioned:
“Together with our companions Haskoning and EPS, ESD is totally delighted to have gained this yr’s RAE sustainability award. We’re proud to be a Scottish Water Alliance Associate, defending public well being and the atmosphere throughout Scotland.
“The brand new Winchburgh wastewater remedy works is a superb step ahead for the environmentally delicate remedy of wastewater. We share Scottish Water’s ambition to realize web zero by 2040 and the applied sciences used at Winchburgh will assist us obtain that aim. This undertaking units a transparent benchmark for different related initiatives deliberate for the long run.
“This prestigious award is worthy recognition for the entire staff. 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 vital flagship undertaking.”
Andrew Dyne, Contracts Supervisor, Haskoning mentioned:
“This award is a testomony to what may 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 influence—supporting Scottish Water and the folks of Winchburgh with a future-proof, low-carbon answer that units a brand new normal for wastewater remedy 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 through the Covid pandemic, via to the deployment of progressive expertise and a cutting-edge off-site supply methodology.
“It units a transparent normal 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.”
