Anglian Water doubles capital workload and rebuilds delivery teams

Anglian Water's @one Alliance will more than double its capital workload from £1.2bn to £3bn during AMP8, and it is overhauling its contractor teams to match.

The eight-partner alliance is putting new single delivery groups in charge of multiple projects across entire catchments. Around £750m will be delivered through a new Place-Based programme, which replaces the traditional approach of managing treatment works, networks and environmental schemes separately.

Rather than spreading projects across different groups, each integrated team will take end-to-end responsibility for planning and delivering works within its allocated catchment. The alliance believes this structure will let contractors combine construction activities, share resources and identify single interventions that tackle several infrastructure problems at once.

Delivery organisations will shrink from six teams to five. They will cover bioresources, nutrient removal, large treatment, and storm and networks, plus a standalone team for the major Whitlingham programme.

Key investment areas include the Whitlingham, Bedford and Flag Fen water recycling centres, alongside catchment programmes in Cotton Valley, Colchester, Wymondham and Ipswich.

The alliance expects the restructure to sharpen accountability, reduce repeat site visits and improve programme certainty as it prepares for what it calls its largest investment programme yet.

The @one Alliance comprises Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, Mott MacDonald Bentley, MWH Treatment, Skanska and Sweco.

The restructuring signals how water-sector delivery models are shifting toward catchment-scale integration as AMP8 spending commitments land, with the eight partners now organised around geographic and thematic programmes rather than asset types.