A civil engineering group headquartered in Hampshire is marking a hat-trick of industry awards.
Three technically-demanding schemes involving Southampton-based Trant Construction which employs 750 people across multi-disciplinary operations in the UK and overseas, won top accolades.
Two of them were bestowed by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) South East England in the organisation’s Engineering Excellence Awards 2012; the third came from the European Construction Institute (ECI).
Gerry Somers, Trant’s contracts director for construction services, said: “All three projects were technically demanding and relied on expertise, teamwork, close collaboration and communication to meet the exacting expectations of clients in compliance-driven industries where there is no margin for error.”
He added: “A company is only as good as its employees, and we are fortunate at Trant Construction to have many of the best.”
Trant was the part of the project team, alongside London Array Ltd and Siemens Transmission and Distribution Ltd, which was named ICE overall winner for the development of the Cleve Hill onshore substation near Faversham in north Kent.
Built after 550,000 tonnes of earth were excavated and reused on site as screening mounds, the substation will flow energy from the largest offshore wind farm in the world to the 400kV national transmission system, powering up to 750,000 homes.
Trant also won an ICE project award for the Hardham water resource project in west Sussex; the project team comprised Trant, Barhale Trant Utilities, Southern Water, URS, OCS and Keaveney Contractors.
The scheme involves the abstraction of water from the tidal stretch of the River Arun to a newly created 75m-litre water storage facility, with two new pumping stations and nearly 2km of pipeline. A total of 250,000m3 of excavated material was reused on site.
Trant was also part of a team of specialised subcontractors who built a cold storage facility in Havant, near Portsmouth, for pharmaceutical company Pfizer and which was named ECI Project of the Year 2012.
The multi-million pound facility, developed by main contractor WSP CEL, is one of the largest of its kind in Europe, containing millions of doses of temperature-sensitive life-saving vaccines for shipment around the world.
ICE judges rewarded projects which reflected aspects of ICE’s global vision of civil engineers at the heart of society, delivering development through knowledge, skills and professional expertise.
The ICE awards were held at the Grand Harbour Hotel in Southampton and presented by ICE president Richard Coackley.
