Annual Report 2015
The M&E business has continued to
see revenue growth in the year with
its key clients and has a number of
important long-term framework
contracts that it is tendering for
which provide good opportunities for
further growth and will replace the
loss of work with the Coal Authority
with whom the business had worked
for a number of years.
its work with Thames Water. In
addition, Hydrosave has continued to
expand the interest in its proprietary
valve release system and the offering
of a complete valve maintenance
service, as well as building on its track
record of non-destructive testing of
pipes and other specialist technical
services which are used across the
water utility industry.
Pipeline Services has also grown
its revenue in the year. In addition
to work carried out for South Staffs
Water, the business has increased
work for a range of other water
industry customers and the current
year should see margins on this new
work improve.
Wastewater Services
OnSite, which offers specialist
wastewater services, including flow
monitoring, sewer rehabilitation
and CCTV surveys, had a difficult
year due to the expected cyclical
reduction in demand associated with
the end of the water industry’s AMP
period being more significant than
had been expected. Although lower
margin reactive work continued at
higher levels in the year, OnSite has
now terminated this reactive work
following the year end to focus on its
higher margin activities.
Hydrosave specialises in leak
detection and water management
services. Hydrosave will continue to
focus on providing leading leakage
detection services to framework
customers across the UK from
Scotland to the South coast. During
the year Hydrosave became sole
supplier to Scottish Water and since
the year end has significantly grown
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The business continued to provide
its specialist services to a number of
the Water and Sewerage companies,
together with government
agencies, which also includes the
provision of versatile temporary
and environmentally friendly dams
(branded as Portadam). The new
contract secured in Canada to
provide CCTV and sonar surveys
was mobilised during the year and
represents a step up in the scale of
work by OnSite in that country. A key
development has been the successful
establishment of OnSite Rail which
provides OnSite’s wastewater services
to the rail sector, focussing on drains,
culverts and water courses on and
under the tracks and stations, thereby
reducing the impact on OnSite of the
AMP cycle in the water industry.
During the year, OnSite’s sewer lining
business continued to work closely
with our key customers, including a
number of the Water and Sewerage
companies, providing CIPP and UV
lining services.