Balfour to battle Hochtief and Jones Bros JV to build UK’s first reservoir in 40 years
Portsmouth Water has confirmed the suppliers in the running to help deliver its £100M Havant Thicket Reservoir in Hampshire – the first major new water storage reservoir in the UK since the 1980s.
Following a pre-qualification process, the company has now issued formal invites to tender for the two main work packages – the main reservoir and its associated pipeline – worth a total of £140M.
Suppliers invited to tender for the main reservoir are Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering, Hochtief Construction and JT Mackley & Co and Jones Bros Ruthin Co Joint Venture (Mackley Jones JV).
Roadbridge UK
Ward & Burke Construction
At 1.6km from east to west and 0.8km from north to south, the reservoir will be built on a 160-hectare grassland site owned by Portsmouth Water in Havant, Hampshire. It will hold approximately 8.7 billion litres of water and will be able to supply up to 21 million litres of water each day – having been filled in the winter from surplus water pumped from the Bedhampton springs in Havant. The reservoir is scheduled to be operational by 2029.
According to Portsmouth Water, the new reservoir at Havant Thicket will secure critical water supplies for the South East of England, an area under serious water stress. It will also help protect environmentally sensitive chalk streams and create a new, green leisure facility for local communities and wildlife. The scheme is being progressed under a collaboration between Portsmouth Water and Southern Water.