Costain Group
Expression of Interest - United Utilities AMP8 - Windermere
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Costain Wins Extensive Work in Water Sector
Costain have won extensive work across the water sector to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. We are working with United Utilities as one of 7 partners to the Enterprise, delivering £5.5bn of projects in the Asset Management Period 8 (AMP8) between 2025 – 2030, and AMP 9 (2030 – 2035). Our scope is to provide project management, design, construction and commissioning services on design and build schemes throughout the North West and Cumbria region covered by United Utilities. Projects vary in value, covering both infrastructure and non-infrastructure assets on water and wastewater sites with wider Enterprise partners.
Our latest project win (commencing September 2026) is 3 wastewater schemes in the Windermere area. These schemes are at Bowness-on-Windermere, Hawkshead and Grasmere. All 3 schemes are at outline design / feasibility stage and will focus on reducing Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) spills. Project scopes involve the construction of below ground storage tanks, replacement of existing storm screens, caustic dosing, ferric dosing, works return pipework.
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We are now seeking expressions of interest from candidates wishing to develop their careers in the water sector and join our growing delivery team in the Cumbria region. We are particularly interested to hear from candidates of all levels across various disciplines including:
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Please register your interest and we look forward to speaking with you about our opportunities as they become available from September onwards.
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About Costain
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
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