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Stantec has been selected to provide integrated design services for Agratas, Tata Group’s global battery business, who are building a battery cell manufacturing facility on the Gravity Smart Campus in the United Kingdom (UK).
The new advanced manufacturing facility, comprising three separate buildings with associated ancillary structures, will create up to 4,000 jobs on site over the lifespan of the project and thousands more in the supply chain.
With innovative technologies and resource efficient processes, the facility will produce high-quality, high-performance, sustainable battery cells. The next generation of batteries will support Britain’s energy transition and power hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles. This is one of the most significant manufacturing investments in the UK, and the factory will be one of the largest of its kind in Europe.
When Thames Water identified the need for a new £53 million strategic sludge centre in Basingstoke, our team stepped up as designer for both the outline and detailed design.
This plant accepts local and imported sludge - both cake and liquid - and screens and treats it before anaerobic digestion. The Basingstoke facility features thermal hydrolysis process (THP), gas holding and treatment, combined heat and power (CHP), a waste gas burner, composite steam boiler, an odour control system, and a sidestream liquor treatment plant.
Taking on full design services, from piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), civil construction drawings, to detailed mechanical and electrical specifications, our team provided process, civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering for the project.
Looking to improve water quality with a nature-based solution, Yorkshire Water set out to establish the Clayton West Integrated Constructed Wetland (ICW). The 43,000-square-metre (462,848-square-foot) free surface water wetland, which resides within a site double the size, is the largest ICW in the UK to treat stormwater overflow discharges. Yorkshire Water reached out to our team to help.
Our sustainable approach to stormwater management addresses the environmental challenges posed by storm overflows exacerbated by climate change. Unlike traditional gray engineering solutions, the ICW system can handle the variability and unpredictability of stormwater discharges through advanced hydraulic controls, simulated using computational fluid dynamics.
By incorporating over 300,000 plants, Clayton West aims to deliver an over 30 percent positive biodiversity net change (PBNC) across the site.
Stantec has supported Drax in gaining approval from the Scottish Government to boost the generating capacity of the existing Cruachan pumped storage hydropower station.
Deep inside Ben Cruachan Mountain in Argyll and Bute, the power station’s turbine hall houses four generating units. The power station was originally commissioned in 1965, with Unit 1 and Unit 2 undergoing upgrades in the early 2000s. Now, the final two units (3 and 4), will also be upgraded. These efforts are expected to boost the generating capacity of the plant by more than 40 megawatts (MW) to a total of 480MW.
The KSP Sewer, buried beneath one of the busiest intersections in London, and above one of London Underground’s live tunnels, was found to be showing significant distress during a routine inspection. In addition to severe deterioration, the 170-year-old structure was found to have settled by 166mm from the original constructed level thereby encroaching into the kinematic envelope of the trains below.
The KSP sewer was built between 1848-1856, seven years before the first section of the London Underground. The two structures intersect near Baker Street tube station. At this location, the sewer is supported by a bridge structure spanning between the walls of the underground tunnel. Closing the tube line to repair the sewer from below would be extremely expensive whilst closing the busy road intersection to repair from above would cause major disruption to the public.
Our team worked closely with Thames Water and Stakeholders to develop an innovative solution to extend the asset life of the sewer structure by 120 years. The team’s solution involved strengthening the sewer from the inside, eliminating all disruption to the public.
Major changes are planned for East Lothian, east of Edinburgh. Reflecting this, East Lothian Council appointed us to develop a new local transport strategy (LTS). After an initial review of background documents, we understood what remained relevant from the previous LTS and what had been achieved in that period.
This provided an understanding of the context and many of the issues that still needed to be addressed. We also undertook an analysis to understand the key transport conditions and trends affecting East Lothian. From this, we developed a list of the problems, issues, constraints, and opportunities to guide the new LTS.
The strategy was centred around five policies to provide the framework for actions and measures. These were aligned to the objectives and designed to address the identified problems and issues.
In response to the challenges of climate change impacts such as flooding and droughts, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), Environment Agency, and United Utilities formed a first-of-its-kind partnership to manage water differently. Taking a holistic and collaborative approach to water management, the partnership created an integrated water management plan (IWMP) and engaged us to help.
With our partnership knowledge and experience and industry-recognised methodologies, we helped build a vision supporting objectives and created a series of seven workstreams to support the development of the IWMP. Through this collaboration, the partnership delivers progressive improvements in sustainable water management, enhancing the natural environment.
As the oldest university in the English-speaking world, the University of Oxford strives to keep their existing estate renewed and complemented with new buildings. They reached out to us to help refurbish Grade-listed buildings from the 1880s to the 1970s - including the Grade I neo-gothic Museum of Natural History and the Grade II Radcliffe Science Library—to create Reuben College, Oxford’s first new college in 30 years.
We worked closely with construction and heritage teams. Extensive opening-up works allowed us to investigate the heritage building’s structure with the aim of reducing design and programme risk. We reused and strengthened the existing structure where required and created a new link building providing Equality Act compliant access between the existing building levels.
Yorkshire Water, working in collaboration with Stantec and other stakeholders, has created the UK's first ever smart water network. It incorporates a real-time informed hydraulic digital twin that works to further improve the essential water supply service provided to the community of Sheffield.
Utilising state-of-the-art digital twin technologies, digital water meters, sensors, advanced analytics, and telecommunications channels, the pilot will revolutionise the way Yorkshire Water manages leaks and interruptions to supply in the future.
Through integrating almost 4,000 live data streams across an area covering over 20,000 properties in Hadfield, West Sheffield, the model enables simulated impact assessments and improved customer awareness. As a result, analysts in Yorkshire Water can prioritise repairs instantly, enabling leaks to be repaired quicker and reducing water lost.
The transformation of a low-lying flood plain in Reading has created Green Park: one of Europe's largest business parks, comprising a 72-hectare complex of offices and leisure facilities. Our ecology team worked closely with the park’s owners, Oxford Properties, to enhance biodiversity value and promote enjoyment of the park by business users and the local community.
We were originally approached in 1981 by the landowner, who was seeking to redevelop the low-grade sewage farmland. We recognised the potential and value of the land and led negotiations to obtain the necessary approvals and agreements to commence development of the site.
Over the life of the project, we carried out the complete infrastructure design for Green Park and have provided a range of multidisciplinary consulting services, including project co-ordination and management through the feasibility, pre-planning and planning stages.
Located next to the fastest eroding coastline in the United Kingdom (UK), Yorkshire Water was faced with a challenge to relocate its existing wastewater facility in Hollym near Withernsea. By building a new treatment facility inland, Yorkshire Water were able to look at new, alternative options for treating the town’s wastewater.
The implementation of a new Aero-Fac® Wastewater Treatment Works was the result of four years of collaboration and planning by Yorkshire Water, Stantec, Gurney Environmental, and Ward and Burke. A step away from traditional wastewater treatment, this option is the largest of its kind in the UK and uses renewable energy wind-power, providing an environmentally friendly, low carbon solution.
We worked with Yorkshire Water to develop a new variable flow 7,500-15,000 population equivalent (PE) works, which was selected to replace the existing higher carbon footprint activated sludge plant.
No strangers to water, Hull and Haltemprice in Yorkshire and East Riding have the second highest flood risk anywhere in the United Kingdom. These areas have faced severe flooding events - flooding in 2007 impacted 9,000 homes and businesses. The potential for severe flooding arises from a complex interaction between a variety of drainage sources, so several organisations joined together to create flood-resilience in the region. Living with Water, or LWW, is the result of that cooperation.
A UK voluntary partnership between Yorkshire Water, Hull City Council, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, the Environment Agency, and the University of Hull, LWW works to create flood resilience and a greener environment through sustainable blue-green infrastructure (BGI). We’re collaborating with LWW on their Blue-Green Plan, a new type of strategy which looks through a long-term lens - our system integrators, engineers, planners, and landscape architects understand that a lasting flood-resilient solution goes beyond water.
To support this partnership, our team developed flood resilience and innovative water management methods. Focusing on prioritising BGI - nature-based solutions and sustainable drainage systems can create better places to live and work while preventing future flooding - the plan includes smart drainage system control and action guidance.
National Grid Electricity Transmission signed a contract with a solar developer to connect 37.5 megawatts of solar generation to the 275-kilovolt Hartmoor substation. They appointed us to investigate options on how to proceed with reconfiguring the site to accommodate substantial layout changes and accommodate the connection of multiple customers.
Our services included high voltage electrical design, review of the existing service and utility drawings, and cable entry route options. We also conducted a feasibility assessment for a banked connection and combined layout and elevation drawings showing electrical clearances, maintenance access, and an overall layout detailing the full extent of works needed.
The existing layout of the substation presented a major technical challenge to adapting the site. However, through detailed review during the optioneering process, we determined a layout for Hartmoor that will enable NGET to connect new customers to the substation.
As the largest single-owned innovation community in the UK, Milton Park provides space to over 270 organisations on more than 300 acres (121 hectares). Milton Park’s latest development, Nebula, is comprised of seven purpose-built research and development tech boxes with landscaped, external communal space linking the units. Based on our familiarity with the site from our work on Bee House, MEPC selected us to provide structural and civil engineering services on their latest facility.
Nebula's buildings have clear heights of 8 metres (26 feet) and spans of up to 30 metres (98 feet), providing flexibility for occupiers with requirements for large-scale equipment or vehicles including science, technology, and advanced engineering companies.
Conventionally, a building of these proportions would pursue steel construction, utilising the material's inherent characteristics to span these large areas without internal support. However, early in the design process, our team conducted a structural materials appraisal, demonstrating how more environmentally conscious materials could achieve the design brief.
Building capacity in Europe’s largest data centre location. The SEGRO operated trading estate at Slough, UK, has served a tremendous variety of enterprises over its 100 years. Of late, its advantages including power availability, fibre broadband availability, and security, have resulted in the estate becoming the second largest cluster of data centres in the world and Europe’s largest data centre cluster.
When SEGRO wanted to provide additional growth opportunities for the data centre industry, they called upon our civil engineering services, including transport and air quality, to secure two separate full-planning consents for two data centres, totalling more than 29,000 square metres of floorspace.
Both developments are located on brownfield land and will provide significant employment and economic benefits during the construction phases. When operational, they will provide up to 136 operational jobs, and will generate approximately £1.7 million in business rates per annum.
How do you create a world inside a building? This was the problem University College London (UCL) faced when scoping out their new research facility, the Person Environment Activity Research Laboratory (PEARL).
To help make their vision a reality, UCL appointed our team to provide the mechanical and electrical engineering necessary to create an immersive laboratory to monitor what people see, touch, hear, smell, or feel in real world scenarios.
Described as one of London’s most remarkable new buildings, the 4000 square metre, 10-metre-high mega lab offers full-size simulations and facilitates research into access and mobility, from navigating kerbs in wheelchairs to improving train design and maximising space inside aircraft. We took inspiration from national theatres to deliver the flexibility to change from one scene to another in the shortest possible time.
