Britcon has won a £13.5 million contract to deliver construction works on a new anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Dagenham.

The £32m project is being developed for Refood (UK) at the London Sustainable Industries Park (SIP) in Dagenham Dock.

Britcon's contract award follows the firms successful delivery of construction works for Refood on a £24m plant in Widnes and a £20m plant in Doncaster, including a £5m extension.

The Dagenham plant will include a modern gas to grid (G2G) facility capable of recycling 160,000 tonnes of food waste each year. In addition, the facility will be able to generate more than 2,000 m2/hr of methane gas and power over 10,000 homes across the region.


As Principal Contractor, Britcon will carry out groundworks, remediation works, piling operations, structural steelwork buildings and construction of works for multiple high rise, post tensioned, circular, reinforced concrete digester, receiving and gas storage tanks.

The 66-week project also includes of a sustainable high specification office complex, a modern depackaging building with deep basement, numerous process structures and extensive external and landscaping works.

John Whitmore, Director at Britcon, said: "We are delighted to assist ReFood (UK) Ltd in delivering its third AD plant in the UK. Through our previous projects we have demonstrated a highly experienced approach throughout procurement, delivery, flexibility and post management together with an exemplary health and safety record."

Paul Morris, Operations Director at ReFood, added: "We are pleased to appoint Britcon (UK) Ltd for this very significant project. The team has proved to be extremely experienced and proficient in this complex area of construction whist conforming to our sustainability agenda."

The AD plant is due to open in summer 2017.

(LM/JP)