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Waste and Energy

Turning raw materials into the products we use requires huge amounts of energy and this has a devastating impact on the environment.

We understand the need to reuse that energy at the end of a product’s life, saving our finite landfill space, generating value from our waste, easing the pressure on our limited resources, and helping protect the environment.

Our knowledge and understanding of the industry mean we can offer a full range of specialist services to support schemes in the waste sector, from consulting on strategic planning to designing state of the art waste handling engineering with the capacity to efficiently handle waste and put it to profitable use.

We support the strategic planning of waste management facilities, evaluating current practices and determining an appropriate infrastructure to facilitate present practices and meet future needs. Our dedicated team assist at each stage of your waste infrastructure’s development, providing support at the prebid stage, expert planning and design, and advice throughout the commissioning process. We have a comprehensive breadth of knowledge and a proven track record of delivering projects on budget and to strict deadlines.

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Our experts successfully integrate innovative new waste technologies, whilst balancing the viability of any potential treatment processes with your financial and environmental needs. We work at all levels of the industry, from small scale residential developments to national level organisations.

Our key areas of experience include household recycling centres and advanced waste treatment processing. Our experts successfully integrate innovative new waste technologies, whilst balancing the viability of any potential treatment processes with your financial and environmental needs.

We work at all levels of the industry, from small scale residential developments to national level organisations. Our key areas of experience include household recycling centres and advanced waste treatment processing facilities. In addition, we have detailed knowledge of harnessing private finance initiatives for which we provide a thorough advisory service to guide you through the complex PFI process.

We are extensively involved in securing environmental permits and planning permissions and, with former regulators in our team, we can help challenge overcautious advice or overoptimistic opinions. By identifying the complex material issues and understanding our clients’ needs, we provide efficient and cost effective solutions that will exceed your expectations and ensure the best future for our planet facilities. In addition, we have detailed knowledge of harnessing private finance initiatives for which we provide a thorough advisory service to guide you through the complex PFI process.

We are extensively involved in securing environmental permits and planning permissions and, with former regulators in our team, we can help challenge overcautious advice or overoptimistic opinions. By identifying the complex material issues and understanding our clients’ needs, we provide efficient and cost effective solutions that will exceed your expectations and ensure the best future for our planet.

“We’re helping our clients maximise the efficiency of their waste facilities and reduce the environmental impact of their development schemes by embedding circular economy principles from the outset. We work closely with local authorities to formulate waste strategies which respond to their latest requirements and deliver highly sustainable solutions.”

Matt Mehegan, Technical Director, Waterman Group

Featured Project

Allerton Waste Recovery Park

Allerton Waste Recovery Park is a 13,500 sqm multi-treatment development on 5.1 hectares of land in North Yorkshire. The site comprises an energy from waste facility, a mechanical treatment facility and an anaerobic digestion unit.

The scheme’s objective was to significantly contribute to minimising waste sent to landfill in conjunction with a targeted 90% reduction across the region. The new facility provides North Yorkshire County Council and City of York Council a saving on their waste management bill over the next 25 years, whilst producing 220,000 MWh of renewable electricity per year.

Contractor, VINCI Construction UK, oversaw the build, with the project becoming fully operational in 2018. Waterman provided multidisciplinary support for the scheme, encompassing structural, civil engineering, drainage, mechanical and electrical building services, fire engineering and environmental services. In addition, we appointed Race Cottam Associates to provide the architectural design for the entire site.

The facility incorporates many varied and harsh operational environments and this is particularly reflected in our building services design for the waste treatment process halls, the tipping halls and the bunker areas.

The segregation of process flue discharge and building fresh air supplies required a detailed ventilation strategy to be developed and modelled by our specialists. Temperature control was essential for the safety of operatives in the main process halls where furnaces are constantly in operation. As a result, CFD thermal models were produced to ensure safe internal temperatures in the operational areas were maintained for personnel.

Providing services routes required careful planning to suit the varying process hall levels, which range from 0m to over 18m, and our experts developed detailed models in Revit to mitigate clashes and helped coordinate the process plant, structural and architectural elements.

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