Water industry resurrects ‘PFI model’ for £1bn job

United Utilities is set to become the first major water company to pioneer a reinvented design, build and finance model to construct major infrastructure projects in the sector.
The water company is going ahead with the ‘ground-breaking new contract model’, after receiving formal consent from water regulator Ofwat.
United Utilities will trailblaze the design, build, finance and maintain approach for the upgrade of the 110km Haweswater Aqueduct from Cumbria to Greater Manchester which