Key Technical Challenges AMP6

Name: Key Technical Challenges AMP6
Start: 2015-10-07T08:30:00
Location: Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London

07 October 2015
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Overview

This event will focus on the technical challenges that will arise from the new total expenditure (TOTEX) environment; what type of solutions are being sought and how the supply chain will be engaged to provide them.

Attend this event to learn best practices when tackling key technical challenges of the Asset Management Programme 6 (AMP6) and network with leading Water industry experts.

Benefits of attendance:

• Gain an appreciation of the key technical challenges being faced in AMP6
• Understand solutions proposed by water companies to address the TOTEX challenge
• Network with representatives from across the utilities industry
• Hear alternative perspectives and potential solutions on key technical challenges

Day 1

08:30 - Key Technical Challenges AMP6

08:30 REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS

09:00 CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS
Kevin Gaunt, Chair, Water and Wastewater Industry Committee, Institution of Mechanical of Engineers

09:10 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: AMP6: MORE FOR LESS
• Customers are at the centre of AMP6
• Delivering high level outcomes
• TOTEX – driving efficiency and innovation
Alison Fergusson, Principal Engineer, OFWAT

09:40 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTING TOTEX
• Shifting to a TOTEX mindset
• Navigating the TOTEX challenges
• Client benefits of implementing TOTEX
Speaker to be announced

10:10 MAXIMISING PERFORMANCE IN A TOTEX ENVIRONMENT
• Is the industry ready for the challenge?
• What part does data play?
• Maximising performance
Gregg Barton, Director, Turner & Townsend

10:40 QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
An opportunity to put forward questions to the session presenters

10:50 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

11:20 TOTEX: DOES ANYTHING REALLY CHANGE?
• The societal impact
• The effect on the supply chain
• Understanding the timeframe for TOTEX calculations
Richard Rogers, Head of Group Health, Safety & Wellbeing and TOTEX Assurance, Severn Trent Water

11:50 WIMES LCC Models - WIMES (WATER INDUSTRY MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL SPECIFICATIONS) LOWEST LIFECYCLE COSTS MODELS
• Key objectives of the WIMES projects
• Examples offered to water companies
• Reviewing different design options for projects
Roger Marlow, Principal Consultant, The Pump Centre

12:20 ADOPTING BIM ACROSS THE WATER INDUSTRY
• Building an evidence-based library of case studies and best practice
• Working with BIM4Manufacturers and others groups of influence
• Influencing the business case for BIM adoption across the water industry
Jon De Souza, Chair, BIM4WATER

12:30 QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
An opportunity to put forward questions to the session presenters

12:40 NETWORKING LUNCH

13:40 PANEL SESSION: INCENTIVISING OPEX
Led by Kevin Gaunt, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, this panel session will uncover how the water industry plans to incentivise the implementation of an OPEX strategy. Key points that will be discussed are:
• How are water companies planning to ensure that TOTEX solutions are provided by their supply chains?
• How can suppliers be incentivised to offer optimum TOTEX rather than lowest CAPEX solutions?
• What is needed to ensure a consistent approach to the assessment of potential project options?
Invited panellists only

14:30 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

14:50 CHANGING BEHAVIOURS AND COLLABORATION TO ACHIEVE A SUCCESSFUL TOTEX SOLUTION
• The key influencing factors to TOTEX and lowest whole life cost
• The different stakeholders – what does a successful TOTEX solution mean to them
• How innovation and collaboration must be used to make TOTEX work
Andrew Ball, Water Utility Director, Grundfos Pumps Ltd

15:20 TOTEX AND THE ROLE OF THE FUTURE WATER ASSOCIATION
• The need for clearer guidance in the water industry on the scope of TOTEX and the role that the Future Water Association can play in achieving this
• The role that the supply chain must play in achieving a TOTEX approach to water asset investment
• How the FWI can encourage innovation in the supply chain to achieve smarter asset investment that truly balances capital and operational expenditure
Alistair Moseley, Water and Waste Water Business Development, The Future Water Association

15:50 CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS

16:00 END OF SEMINAR

Kevin Gaunt (CHAIR): Water and Wastewater Industry Committee, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Kevin Gaunt joined the IMechE as a student member in 1978 and became a Chartered Engineer in 1993. He graduated with a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from Bradford University in 1981 having been sponsored and employed by GEC Machines. Following graduation Kevin took up a role as a Design Engineer with GEC and progressed to the post of Principal Engineer. Kevin moved to Severn Trent Water in 1990 working initially as a Project Manager on both Water and Wastewater Capital Projects before moving into an Engineering Standards role with responsibility for the development and maintenance of STW’s Mechanical and Electrical Standards. Kevin set up and managed STW’s MPDS Programme for many years with responsibility for supporting graduate mechanical engineers seeking to become chartered. He also set up, established and chairs the Water and Wastewater TAC. Kevin is now retired.

Alison Fergusson: Ofwat, Principal Engineer

Alison Fergusson has been at Ofwat for seven years and has more than 25 years of experience in the water industry, having worked in two of the large water and sewerage companies in a variety of roles. Alison is a Chartered Chemical Engineer. Her work has been primarily in wastewater and sludge treatment, and in the 2014 price review she led the wastewater TOTEX cost assessment work, modelling expenditure and assessing company plans.

Richard Rogers: Head of Group Health Safety & Wellbeing and TOTEX Assurance, Severn Trent Water

Richard Rogers has over 20 years of experience in the industry, in a variety of roles; water, waste, operations within the UK, Europe and developing countries. 12 months ago, in preparations for AMP6 he helped to create a wholesale team and a chief engineers department. Richard took the opportunity to set up an independent assurance team in the CE department to look at how Severn Trent Water can maximise TOTEX opportunities and ensure operational and investment decisions reflect the spirit of, and benefits to customers, of the change to a TOTEX world.

Roger Marlow: Principal Consultant, The Pump Centre

Roger Marlow is a materials engineer who took over the responsibility for the Water Industry Mechanical & Electrical (WIMES) project over 15 years ago. Working closely with a core team of principal engineers within the Water Industry he has developed and maintained a suite of over 60 common mechanical and electrical specifications.

Jon De Souza: Chair, BIM4WATER

Jon de Souza is Chair of BIM4WATER, the organisation tasked with supporting organisations in the water sector with their adoption of Building Information Modelling. As his day job, he is Business Improvement Manager for Galliford Try’s water division. He joined the company in August 2012 having spent nine years at Constructing Excellence where he held the position of Director and was responsible for BIM, performance measurement, sustainability, lean and the activities of the Construction Clients’ Group. Prior to this he held roles at CIRIA and Anglian Water.

Andrew Ball: Water Utility Director, Grundfos Pumps Ltd

Andrew Ball has worked in the water industry across the UK and Ireland for 23 years. Andrew has worked with Biwater, United Utilities Contract Solutions, Carillion and latterly Grundfos in a number of business development and transition roles for frameworks, major design and build projects such as the Brighton and Hove WwTW – a £230m project, capital programmes including the 4D programme for Southern Water, outsourcing contracts including the Welsh Water Operations and Maintenance contract and Wastewater PFI schemes in Scotland and Ireland. Andrew brings a unique insight from an operator, contractor and equipment provider perspective to achieving the optimum TOTEX solution.

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