Balfour Beatty has been recognised with a major accolade at this year's Water Industry Awards.

The firm and its supply chain partners Hogen Systems and GenQuip GroundHog secured the award for 2019 Sustainability and Resource Recovery Initiative of the Year at a ceremony on Monday night, 20 May.

The Water Industry Awards is the annual celebration of outstanding achievement and innovation in the UK water industry.

This award recognised the partnership's initiative which combines rainwater harvesting, atmospheric drinking water generation and renewable energy sources to provide facilities for on-site workers. Currently being trialed at Balfour Beatty's Plant and Fleet Innovation Centre in Thurnscoe, the initiative uses solar and wind energy to power a generator which produces water for drinking and other uses.


Richard Mason, Product & Innovations Manager, who led on the initiative for the partnership, said: "We are delighted to have won the Sustainability and Resource Recovery Initiative of the Year award.

"By collaborating with our supply chain partners, we were able to design innovative and sustainable solutions that offer better welfare facilities for our on-site staff and are better for the environment. The use of this innovation could reduce the need for water deliveries to remote areas and result in reduced carbon emissions from associated transport of water bowsers or tankers to site."

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