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Byzak Achieve Top Health and Safety Award

Byzak have received a top Award for Health and Safety in the North East. The award was received from Constructing Excellence, sponsored by Association for Project Safety, for outstanding Health and Safety on Browney Sewage Treatment Works project which Byzak carried out for Northumbrian Water.

Constructing Excellence commented;

“The judges looked for organisations and projects where health and safety had been driven forward to go beyond what is required within the duties as stated in CDM 2007 in order to achieve an excellent result. Throughout the Browney Sewage Treatment works project, the Byzak team showed evidence that best practice had been utilised, incorporating health and safety into the planning and management of the project's life cycle. As a result, no reportable incidents occurred and construction was managed without compromising the safety or performance of existing works.”

The reason for our success in this project was the teamwork ethic and pro-active approach, characterised by continuity from previous projects, regular communications, frequent planning liaison, and focused discussion sessions which throughout included the continuing engagement of the end user.

Byzak Innovation Represents Breakthrough in Carbon Reduction

Byzak’s Research and Development Centre in Washington is dedicated to developing products and processes that work in tandem with public sector carbon strategies and the long-term commitment to achieve 25-30 percent reductions in carbon usage by 2020.

A key product in this development is the award-winning Retroflo RPC_2000 Pump Control System. Developed at the R+D Centre,  RPC_2000 was successfully trialled and put into operation at several problematic pumping stations operated by Northumbrian Water. The success of these installations led to interest from the principal water companies in the UK, and the RPC_2000 is currently being put in operation by United Utilities and Scottish Water and undergoing trials by several other companies at home and abroad.

UK water companies invest more than £94 million per week in maintaining and improving services and as an energy intensive industry account for around one percent of the UK’s total carbon emission. It is therefore increasingly important for water companies to realise efficiencies.

The potential for the RPC_2000 to save energy and operational costs is huge. If you consider that water companies operate thousands of wastewater pumping stations across the UK, and Retroflo systems are saving on average £1 per hour on existing pumping costs per station, the scope for efficiencies is enormous.

The Retroflo team, based at Byzak’s Research and Development Centre in Washington, is continually reviewing and updating the technology driving the Retroflo system. As part of current development work is a feature that will benchmark efficiency and automatically select duty criteria based on these efficiencies. The added benefit of this feature will be further optimisation of the station and its power requirements. Retroflo’s RPC_2000 is at the vanguard of improving the water industry’s carbon management - a British innovation that has the potential to impact the industry globally. For more information visit www.retroflo.com

Byzak North West Secure UU Framework

Byzak have been appointed by United Utilities to work on the Northwest Minor Works Alliance Framework. Byzak, one of four appointed contractors, has been assigned the Manchester area. Harry Kaye has been appointed as the Framework Manager with Peter Robinson as Contracts Manager.

The work will involve civil engineering, and mechanical and electrical engineering to be carried out across the full range of United Utilities facilities, broadly similar to Byzak's current Minor Works/SVCP frameworks with Northumbrian Water and Scottish Water.

Works will include:

• All types of MEICA work in connection with Capital Maintenance of water and waste water assets.
• Civil engineering works of all types
• Minor building works
• Landscaping
• Reservoir and reservoir catchment works including works to embankments, spillways, erosion protection and river works
• Pumping station works including work to screens, pump refurbishment and penstocks, river outfalls
• Health and Safety improvements including access works, walkways, handrails and ladders

Projects range in value from several thousand pounds to over £500,000.00.

Alpine Tunnel Breakthrough

Byzak’s  Tunnelling boring machine (TBM) has completed  a  1300 metre long  pipejack tunnel drive in the Italian Alps, close to the Austrian /Slovenian border .  The 2.5 m diameter pipejack , believed to be Italy’s longest, was constructed through alpine rock on  a gradient  of 1 in 8 which means the TBM emerged some 500ft above its entry point at the main work site area.

Byzak’s TBM, back up equipment, and operating and support staff were engaged by an Italian contractor to drive the tunnel for a gas pipeline on part of its 20 km long route through forests and alpine areas.  Completion of the tunnel is a tremendous achievement for all those involved.

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