Mott MacDonald wins AED90m power and water deal

Attention to the efficiency of water and waste water use has increased in the Emirates.

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Mott MacDonald has been awarded a three-year AED90 million consultancy contract for power transmission and water by the Abu Dhabi Distribition Company.

The contracts are for consultancy frameworks for power in both the Central and Western regions and for water in the Eastern region of the emirate.

The framework contracts will involve the improvement, reinforcement, extension and development of government-backed water and electricity distribution networks in new areas being developed, as well as private development including islands in the three regions.

Through the frameworks, the UK-based firm will conduct studies and surveys as well as orchestrate the tender documents and process.

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Works will cover electrical networks including overhead lines, underground as well as submarine cables and substations up to 33kV, and water distribution networks - ranging in size from 300mm to 1200mm in diameter - including storage reservoirs, pumping stations and submarine pipelines to private islands.

The deal continues the business relationship between Mott MacDonald and the ADDC. Ian Clarke, Mott MacDonald’s Middle East managing director said: “This is a great tribute to the excellent performance and skills of my power and water colleagues here in Abu Dhabi and in the wider Mott MacDonald Group.”

In the Eastern region, the new framework will include some of the emirate’s largest infrastructure projects such as Capital District, the Abu Dhabi airport expansion, as well as MASDAR, for which Mott MacDonald is lead infrastructure consultant, including for its water and wastewater utilities.

At the beginning of this month Abu Dhabi’s Regulation and Supervision Bureau (RSB) launched two new regulations for wastewater: the Trade Effluent Control Regulations 2010, which will govern all non-domestic discharges into the emirate’s sewerage system, and the Recycled Water and Biosolids Regulations 2010.

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The project teams will be lead by Peter Hall, Mott MacDonald’s Middle East manager for water and wastewater and Milorad Ilic, Mott MacDonald’s Abu Dhabi manager for transmission and distribution.