The UK's first multiple site, multiple consultant hub and cluster project - A case study
| Date/Time: | 23 May 2012
10:30-10:45 |
| Location: | Environmental and Land Remediation Theatre |
Seminar Details
This paper will detail the successful implementation of the UK's first multiple site, multiple consultant, Hub and Cluster project which has allowed remediation of four sites, two of which were heavily constrained, and has delivered significant efficiency, sustainability and cost savings.
The publication of the CL:AIRE Definition of Waste: Development Industry Code of Practice (COP), provided an opportunity for National Grid to progress a full scale Hub and Cluster project, which can be used as a model for other projects elsewhere in the UK, and this project has shown how this can be achieved.
After several phases of assessment, National Grid selected four sites to form the 'cluster', with one site acting as both ?hub' site where the soil treatment centre was to be established and a remediation site within the 'cluster'. Other sites were considered, but excluded on sustainability grounds.
NGPH adopted an innovative contractual approach to the multi-site project by choosing to proceed on the basis of multiple consultants.
Works commenced on site in October 2010 and were completed in July 2011.
The project was considered by National Grid, regulators and all involved to have been very successful, completing on time and budget, despite been the first application of a hub and cluster of this complexity with multiple sites and the multi consultant contractual approach. The Partington project is the only known project that actually satisfies all of the requirements of the COP and the current EA position statement on the use of Cluster sites.
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