Balfour lands £100m SW Water contract

CONSTRUCTION and support services group Balfour Beatty today said it had won extra business with South West Water likely to be worth more than £100m.

Balfour said its utilities subsidiary Balfour Beatty Utilities had successfully negotiated an option to extend an existing seven-year deal for integrated water distribution services.

It said the five-year extension covered the delivery of South West Water's clean water infrastructure programme including rehabilitation of systems, minor capital works, leakage services, metering, reinstatement and repairs and maintenance.

The operating areas for the project include Exeter, Newton Abbot, Torbay and North Devon.Balfour's chief executive Ian Tyler said the extension was the latest in a series of successes for the utilities division following regulatory reviews in the gas and water industries.

During the last six months, the division has secured more than £900m of work in major new contracts for National Grid Transco, United Utilities, Anglian Water and Severn Trent Water and through the extension of contracts for South West Water and Yorkshire Water.

Mr Tyler said: 'We are delighted to commit ourselves to a further five years in partnership with South West Water, with whom we have a first class relationship.'