Success at Sellafield
Balfour Beatty Engineering Services’ Sellafield Product and Residue Store (SPRS) team is celebrating having successfully handed over the project to the client two months ahead of schedule.
The £36m contract has set new standards for work in the nuclear sector with many notable successes including 650,000 man hours worked without a reportable accident and completion of the project below the initial budget.
At the height of the works a team of 230 BBES staff and subcontractors were working on the project providing HVAC, mechanical, electrical and instrumentation services for the SPRS which is now a national asset for the safe secure storage of nuclear materials produced as a result of the reprocessing operations carried out at Sellafield.
The main building work started in 2005 with BBES starting on site in 2007 for a two and a half year period. During this time the BBES team installed enough cable to reach from London to Paris.
BBES operations director Ray Clements said: “This project has proved to be a wonderful example of team work. Providing multi-disciplinary services in such demanding and controlled circumstances is a challenge for any contractor, and our performance has been nothing but outstanding. We’ve delivered a project that has gone beyond expectations and has set a new benchmark for our industry."
Sellafield Ltd’s project management director Bill Condon stated: "I would like everyone to join me in congratulating the SPRS project team on the successful delivery of this significant project."
A celebration night will be attended by the team in July to mark the completion of the works.
Posted: Tuesday 10 August 2010