Thames Water appoints Jacobs and Mott MacDonald as technical partners

Thames Water has appointed Jacobs and Mott MacDonald as technical partners to support delivery of the water company's £4.7bn future asset investment programmes under its Strategic Resource Option (SRO) framework.

The SRO technical framework supports three major water infrastructure programmes: London Water Recycling, South East Strategic Reservoir Option and Severn to Thames Transfer projects. 

Under an eight-year professional services framework agreement, Jacobs and Mott MacDonald will deliver a range of technical, engineering, environmental, regulatory and planning consent services to take the schemes through the development phase and into delivery.

The two companies said that having been involved in early stages of the development of the SROs, they understand the strategic context, need and basis of design for these projects. They claim to have delivered more than 100 development consent orders in the UK water sector, including Thames Tideway Tunnel, the sector’s first project to be developed under the UK’s Specified Infrastructure Projects Regulations.